ŞEVKET VOLKAN EDİGER

Professor
 ŞEVKET VOLKAN EDİGER

A BLOK ZEMİN KAT 117.1

+90 (212) 533 65 32 / 1435-4943

volkan.ediger@khas.edu.tr

https://www.volkanediger.com

ORCID

Education

Doctorate

THE PENNSYLVANİA STATE UNIVERSITY
Jeoloji Mühendisliği

Bachelor's Degree

ORTA DOĞU TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Jeoloji Mühendisliği

Master's Degree

ORTA DOĞU TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Jeoloji Mühendisliği

Research Areas

  • Enerji Sistemleri
  • Enerji Kaynakları
  • Enerji Ekonomisi
  • Enerji Güvenliği
  • Enerji Jeopolitiği

Work Experience

2011 / Continuing Enerji Sistemleri Profesörü
Kadir Has Üniversitesi

2010 / 2011 Enerji Ekonomisi Profesörü
İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi

1998 / 2010 Cumhurbaşkanlığı Enerji Danışmanı
T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı

1986 / 2010 Yarı-Zamanlı Öğretim Üyesi, Jeoloji Mühendsiliği
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi

Publications

  • "Life cycle assessment of black tea production and consumption in Türkiye: Insights from waste management scenarios",
    Üçtuğ, Fehmi Görkem; Ediger, Volkan; Küçüker, Mehmet Ali; Berk, İstemi; İnan, Ali; Tuğcu, Melisa; , Environmental Development, (2025) Vol.55, DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101176
  • "Energy Management in Organized Industrial Zones: Promoting the Green Energy Transition in Turkish Manufacturing Industry",
    Ediger, Volkan; Küçüker, Mehmet Ali; Berk, Istemi; Inan, Ali; Üçtuǧ, Fehmi Görkem; , International Conference on the European Energy Market, EEM, (2024) DOI: 10.1109/EEM60825.2024.10608940
  • "Future availability of natural gas: Can it support sustainable energy transition?",
    Ediger, Volkan; Berk, Istemi; , Resources Policy, (2023) Vol.85, DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103824
  • "Global energy use"
    , Ediger, Volkan S.; , The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability, (2023)
  • "Historical Pattern Analysis of Global Geothermal Power Capacity Development",
    Ediger, Volkan; Akar, Sertaç; , Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council, (2023) Vol.47, 262-289
  • "Optimization of wastewater treatment systems for growing industrial parks",
    Savun-Hekimoğlu, Başak; İşler, Zülal; Hekimoğlu, Mustafa; Burak, Selmin; Karlı, Deniz; Yücekaya, Ahmet; Akpınar, Ersin; Ediger, Volkan; , Science of the Total Environment, (2023) Vol.905, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167223
  • "Evaluating the International Renewable Energy Agency through the lens of social constructivism",
    Mengi-Dinçer, H.; Ediger, V.; Yesevi, G.; , Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, (2021) Vol.152, DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.111705
  • "State capitalism and hydrocarbon security in China and Russia",
    Ediger, Volkan; Bowlus, John V.; Dursun, Ahmet Faruk; , Energy Strategy Reviews, (2021) Vol.38, DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2021.100725
  • "China’s energy-supply security in the multi-energy transition period from fossil fuels to renewable energy"
    , Ediger, Volkan; Bowlus, John V.; Dursun, Ahmet Faruk; , China’s Energy Security: Analysis, Assessment And Improvement, (2020)
  • "Perception, petroleum, and power: Mythmaking in oil-scarce Turkey and Jordan",
    Ediger, Volkan; Selen, Eser; Bowlus, John V.; , Energy Research and Social Science, (2020) Vol.66, DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101499
  • "Greasing the wheels: the Berlin-Baghdad railway and Ottoman oil, 1888–1907",
    Ediger, Volkan; Bowlus, John V.; , Middle Eastern Studies, (2020) Vol.56, No.2, 193-206 DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2019.1667775
  • "Geopolitics and gas-transit security through pipelines"
    , Ediger, Volkan; Bowlus, John V.; Aydin, Mustafa; , Regulations in the Energy Industry: Financial, Economic and Legal Implications, (2020)
  • "A FAREWELL to KING COAL: GEOPOLITICS, ENERGY SECURITY, and the TRANSITION to OIL, 1898-1917",
    Ediger, Volkan; Bowlus, John V.; , Historical Journal, (2019) Vol.62, No.2, 427-449 DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X18000109
  • "An integrated review and analysis of multi-energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables",
    Ediger, Volkan; , Energy Procedia, (2019) Vol.156, 2-6 DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2018.11.073
  • "Turkish public preferences for energy",
    Ediger, Volkan; Kirkil, Gokhan; Çelebi, Emre; Ucal, Meltem; Kentmen-Çin, Çiğdem; , Energy Policy, (2018) Vol.120, 492-502 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.05.043
  • "A historical assessment of Turkey's natural gas import vulnerability",
    Berk, Istemi; Ediger, Volkan; , Energy, (2018) Vol.145, 540-547 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.01.022
  • "Energy economy, finance and geostrategy"
    Dorsman, André B.; Ediger, Volkan; Baha Karan, Mehmet; (2018)
  • "Introduction: Energy economics, finance, and geostrategy"
    , Dorsman, André; Ediger, Volkan; Karan, Mehmet Baha; , Energy Economy, Finance and Geostrategy, (2018)
  • "Geostrategic challenges in the oil and gas sectors"
    , Ediger, Volkan; Berk, Istemi; , Energy Economy, Finance and Geostrategy, (2018)
  • "The effect of energy geopolitics on international climate change initiatives",
    Edıger, Volkan; , Uluslararasi Iliskiler, (2017) Vol.14, No.54, 45-70 DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.513227
  • "Energy in Turkey and Russia’s roller-coaster relationship",
    Ediger, Volkan; Durmaz, Duygu; , Insight Turkey, (2017) Vol.19, No.1, 135-155
  • "Forecasting the coal production: Hubbert curve application on Turkey's lignite fields",
    Berk, Istemi; Ediger, Volkan; , Resources Policy, (2016) Vol.50, 193-203 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2016.10.002
  • "An assessment of mining efficiency in Turkish lignite industry",
    Ediger, Volkan S.; Berk, Istemi; Ersoy, Mücella; , Resources Policy, (2015) Vol.45, 44-51 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2015.03.010
  • "Lignite resources of Turkey: Geology, reserves, and exploration history",
    Ediger, Volkan S.; Berk, Istemi; Kösebalaban, Ayhan; , International Journal of Coal Geology, (2014) Vol.132, 13-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2014.06.008
  • "Geopolitics of oil & gas",
    Ediger, Volkan S.; , World Petroleum Congress Proceedings, (2014) Vol.1, 411-416
  • "Europeanization under membership uncertainty: The cases of environmental and energy policy in Turkey",
    Yildirim, Çaǧri; Baysan, Alper; Ediger, Volkan Ş; , Uluslararasi Iliskiler, (2013) Vol.10, No.39, 131-152
  • "The great game in the Levant: Energy geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Devlen, Balkan; McDonald, Deniz Bingöl; , Uluslararasi Iliskiler, (2012) Vol.9, No.33, 73-92
  • "Crude oil import policy of Turkey: Historical analysis of determinants and implications since 1968",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Berk, Istemi; , Energy Policy, (2011) Vol.39, No.4, 2132-2142 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.01.058
  • "Geopolitics of coal and global environment",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; , 27th Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference 2010, PCC 2010, (2010) Vol.1, 185-217
  • "Turkey-Russia energy relations: Same old story, new actors",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Bagdadi, Itir; , Insight Turkey, (2010) Vol.12, No.3, 221-236
  • "ARIMA forecasting of primary energy demand by fuel in Turkey",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Akar, Sertaç; , Energy Policy, (2007) Vol.35, No.3, 1701-1708 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.05.009
  • "Optimization of fossil fuel sources: An exergy approach",
    Çamdali, Ü; Ediger, V. Ş; , Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects, (2007) Vol.29, No.3, 251-259 DOI: 10.1080/15567030600917041
  • "Energy and exergy efficiencies in Turkish transportation sector, 1988-2004",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Çamdali, Ünal; , Energy Policy, (2007) Vol.35, No.2, 1238-1244 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.03.021
  • "The thermal gradient history of the thrace basin, NW Turkey: Correlation with basin evolution processes",
    Huvaz, Ozkan; Karahanoglu, N.; Ediger, V.; , Journal of Petroleum Geology, (2007) Vol.30, No.1, 3-24 DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-5457.2007.00003.x
  • "Fossil fuel sustainability index: An application of resource management",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Hoşgör, Enes; Sürmeli, A. Neşen; Tatlidil, Hüseyin; , Energy Policy, (2007) Vol.35, No.5, 2969-2977 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.10.011
  • "Forecasting production of fossil fuel sources in Turkey using a comparative regression and ARIMA model",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Akar, Sertaç; Uǧurlu, Berkin; , Energy Policy, (2006) Vol.34, No.18, 3836-3846 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2005.08.023
  • "Examining the sectoral energy use in Turkish economy (1980-2000) with the help of decomposition analysis",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Huvaz, Ozkan; , Energy Conversion and Management, (2006) Vol.47, No.6, 732-745 DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2005.05.022
  • "Modeling technology adoption as an irreversible investment under uncertainty: The case of the Turkish electricity supply industry",
    Madlener, Reinhard; Kumbaroǧlu, Gürkan; Ediger, Volkan Ş; , Energy Economics, (2005) Vol.27, No.1, 139-163 DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2004.10.007
  • "Classification and performance analysis of primary energy consumers during 1980-1999",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; , Energy Conversion and Management, (2003) Vol.44, No.19, 2991-3000 DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(03)00102-X
  • "Forecasting the primary energy demand in Turkey and analysis of cyclic patterns",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Tatlidil, Hüseyin; , Energy Conversion and Management, (2002) Vol.43, No.4, 473-487 DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(01)00033-4
  • "Renewable energy potential as an alternative to fossil fuels in Turkey",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Kentel, Elçin; , Energy Conversion and Management, (1999) Vol.40, No.7, 743-755 DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(98)00122-8
  • "Transportation of coniferous bisaccate pollen from land to sea and deposition along the shelf off Erdemli (Turkey), NE-Mediterranean Sea",
    Ediger, V.; Ediger, V. S.; Ergin, M.; , Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata, (1997) Vol.38, No.3-4, 307-321
  • "Tortonian-Messinian palynomorphs from the easternmost Mediterranean region around Iskenderun, Turkey",
    Ediger, Volkan S.; Bati, Zuhtu; Kozlu, Huseyin; , Micropaleontology, (1996) Vol.42, No.2, 189-205 DOI: 10.2307/1485870
  • "Paleopalynology and paleoecology of Calamus-like disulcate pollen grains",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Bati, Zühtü; Alişan, Cengiz; , Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, (1990) Vol.62, No.1-2, 97-105 DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(90)90019-F
  • "An example of the application of cluster and PCA analysis in paleopalynological biostratigraphy from the northern Thrace Basin",
    Ediger, V. S.; Gurgey, K.; Bati, Z.; , Doga, Turkish Journal of Engineering & Environmental Sciences, (1990) Vol.14, No.3, 393-401
  • "Palynology, geochemistry, and thermal history of the shales associated with the Küre massive sulfide deposits (northern Turkey)",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Erler, Ayhan; , Ore Geology Reviews, (1990) Vol.5, No.5-6, 461-468 DOI: 10.1016/0169-1368(90)90047-Q
  • "Fossil fungal spores: Anatolinites gen. Nov",
    Elsik, William C.; Ediger, Volkan; Bati, Zühtü; , Palynology, (1990) Vol.14, No.1, 91-103 DOI: 10.1080/01916122.1990.9989374
  • "Tertiary fungal and algal palynomorph biostratigraphy of the Northern Thrace Basin, Turkey",
    Ediger, Volkan Ş; Alişan, Cengiz; , Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, (1989) Vol.58, No.2-4, 139-161 DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(89)90082-1
  • "Sieving techniques in palynological sample processing with special reference to the MRA system.",
    Ediger, V. S.; , Micropaleontology, (1986) Vol.32, No.3, 256-270 DOI: 10.2307/1485620

Projects

Project Name Role in the Project Project Type Fund Establishment Start Date End Date
"Cumhuriyetin ikinci yüzyılında enerji stratejileri: Tarihsel dinamiklerin değerlendirilmesi ve küresel eğilimler ışığında gelecek vizyonu" Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 26.09.2024
 26.09.2027
"Avrupa Yeşil Mutabakatı Çerçevesinde Adana Organize Sanayi Bölgesi’nin Eko-Endüstriyel Parka Dönüştürülmesi Amacıyla Döngüsel Ekonomi ve Endüstriyel Simbiyozun Geliştirilmesi" Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 10.10.2022
 15.04.2024
"Household Energy Affordability Assessment in Turkey" Yürütücü Uluslararası Proje Diğer Uluslararası 01.12.2021
 31.03.2022
"FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN: Anatolian Plateau Climate and Tectonic Hazards" Yürütücü Uluslararası Proje FP7 01.10.2013
 30.09.2017
"TKİ ve Kömürün Tarihi ile Türkiye Kömür Stratejileri" Yürütücü Ulusal Proje Diğer Ulusal 01.03.2010
 01.03.2014

Courses Offered

Course Name Course Code Period
Energy and Sustainability INE443 2024/25 Spring
Energy Security and Geopolitics ESD540 2024/25 Spring
Project Management CIV221 2024/25 Fall
Energy Science and Engineering ESD510 2024/25 Fall
Research Methods SGS501 2024/25 Fall