Prof. Dr. Ender Ciğeroğlu, Lisans ve Yüksek Lisans derecelerini Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (ODTÜ) Makine Mühendisliği Bölümü’nden sırasıyla 1999 ve 2002 yıllarında almıştır. İkinci Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini ise 2006 ve 2007 yıllarında Ohio Eyalet Üniversitesi (Ohio State University)’den almıştır.

2007 yılından itibaren ODTÜ Makina Mühendisliği Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmaktadır. 2008-2023 yılları arasında ODTÜ BİLTİR Merkezi Başkan Yardımcısı olarak görev yapmıştır. Kalkınma Bakanlığı tarafından 2016 yılında kabul edilen ve Strateji ve Bütçe Başkanlığı tarafından desteklenen proje kapsamında DİMER, Dişli, Güç Aktarma Sistemleri ve Titreşim Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi’nin kurulması çalışmalarını yürütmüştür. DİMER’in 2024 yılında kurulmasının ardından DİMER Müdürü olarak görev yapmaya başlamıştır.

Dr. Ciğeroğlu araştırma alanları arasında titreşim, doğrusal olmayan titreşimler, sürtünme temasının dinamik modellenmesi, gaz türbinli motorların (jet motorlarının) titreşimleri, dişli dinamiği, yapısal dinamik, mikro-nano yapıların ve karbon nano-tüplerin titreşimi, yapı-akışkan etkileşimi gibi konular yer almaktadır. Yerli ve yabancı sanayi kuruluşları ile çok sayıda ortak proje çalışması gerçekleştirmiştir. Avrupa Birliği ve TÜBİTAK’ın dahil olduğu kuruluşlar tarafından desteklenen projelerde yürütücü ve araştırmacı olarak görev almıştır. Gaz türbinli motorların titreşimleri için geliştirmiş olduğu analiz yazılımları jet motoru tasarlayan uluslararası firmaları tarafından uzun yıllardır kullanılmaktadır.

Aytaç Gören received Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir – Türkiye in 2007. He has been in LTI/UPJV-France as guest professor; in FH-Rosenheim – Germany and TU-Vienna – Austria as guest researcher during his M.Sc. and Ph.D. studies for Solar Energy, Mobile Robots and Nanometrology. He has been involved in several research projects about industrial automation, robotics, solar cars and polymer composites which are supported by EU, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye and Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology of Türkiye. Dr. Gören is the founder and has been leading the Solaris Solar Car Projects since 2004. Until today, his project groups designed and produced seven solar cars and five electric vehicles which took part in World Solar Challenge, Italian Solar Challenge, South African Solar Challenge, Turkish Solar Challenges, European Solar Challenge, France Solar Challenge and Moroccan Solar Challenges. His research interests include solar energy,  high efficient BLDC’s and drivers, EVs, AMRs, and modern control techniques.
Dr. Gören was a Member of Board of Information Technologies Research and Application Center of Dokuz Eylul University. Currently, he is a Member of Board of Electronic Component Research and Application Center of DEU and vice chair of mechanical engineering department He is a reviewer in Journal of Solar Energy (Elsevier), Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics (Springer), Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control (SAGE), Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (Tubitak), Mühendis ve Makina (Chamber of Mechanical Eng.). He also took part in several international and national conferences and workshops including local organizing committee member of IFAC DECOM-TT 2007 Izmir and secretary of TOK 2011 (Turkish Automatic Control Meeting 2011). He was the Chairman of WELMO '17 which was held in Izmir in May 2017. 

He has three book chapters, an international book and more than eighty papers about solar energy, solar cars, mobile robotics and control in journals, international and national conferences. 

Erdogan Madenci is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. With a rich academic background, including a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from UCLA and multiple degrees from Lehigh University, Dr. Madenci has held various positions such as Visiting Faculty at MIT and Visiting Scientist at NASA. He is a Fellow of ASME, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling. His research focuses on engineering mechanics, multiphysics simulations, and nonlocal modeling, earning him numerous awards, including the IEEE Electronic Packaging Society's Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award.

Prof Selda Oterkus joined the department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at University of Strathclyde in August 2015. She is currently a professor (Chair) and the co-director of PeriDynamics Research Centre (PDRC).
She received her PhD degree from the University of Arizona in mechanical engineering with minor degree in civil engineering and engineering mechanics.
Her research mainly focuses on multi-physics modelling of materials and structures including damage prediction due to various loading and environmental conditions. This includes fluid-structure interaction modelling, ships & offshore structures, offshore renewable energy, floating wind and solar energy devices, desalination & water treatment, ice-structure interactions, fire damage in composites, corrosion damage, and poroelasticity.
Her research has been supported by various organisations including Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Department for Transport, British Council, Babcock, QinetiQ, Innovate UK, McDermott and TWI.
Prof Oterkus was a visiting professor at Stanford University (USA), University of Padova (Italy) and Otto von Guericke University (Germany). She is a Special Issue Editor for Computational Material Science (Elsevier) and Journal of Mechanics (Cambridge). She is an associate editor of Frontiers in Materials (Frontiers) and academic editor of Shock and Vibration (Hindawi). She is a member of the editorial boards of Scientific Reports (Nature), Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling (Springer), Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (MDPI), and Sustainable Marine Structures (NASS). She is also currently the chair of ASME UK Section.