Mehmet Timur AYDEMIR received his B.Sc. degree in 1983 and M.Sc. degree in 1985, both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Karadeniz (Blacksea) Technical University, where he also worked as a research assistant. In 1988, he won a scholarship from the Ministry of Education of Turkey for Ph.D. education in the USA. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995. Since then he has been working at Gazi University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
During 2001-02 school year, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin- Madison on Fulbright Scholarship. He is also the vice-director of Gazi University Clean Energy Research and Application Center. His areas of interest include Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Drives, and Renewable Energy Systems.