E. Karatepe received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Gaziantep University, Turkey, in 1995, his M.Sc. in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Ege University, Turkey, in 2000, and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Solar Energy at the Ege University in 2006. He is currently part of the academic staff in the Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering at Ege University. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Kumamoto University, Japan, in 2007. He was visiting professor at the Electronics Engineering of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain in 2011. His research interests include distributed power generation, electrical power system analysis, soft computing, and intelligent systems applications of renewable energy power sources.
