Aytaç Gören, Ph.D., received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 2001 and 2007 from Dokuz Eylul University (DEU). During his M.Sc. and Ph.D. studies, he worked with the Solar Energy and Control Laboratories of FH-Rosenheim, Germany, and the Interchangeable Manufacturing and Industrial Metrology Laboratory of TU-Vienna as an invited researcher. He started teaching at DEU in 2001 and has been a guest professor with the Innovation Technologies Laboratory of Université de Picardie Jules Verne. His current research interests include solar cars, photovoltaics, electric vehicles, mobile robots, artificial neural networks, high-efficiency brushless DC motors (BLDCMs), brushless DC drives, and polymer matrix composites. He has published book chapters and over forty papers in reviewed journals and conferences. He participated as an organizing committee member, executive board member, or chair in several international and national conferences on electromobility, control, and modern manufacturing techniques. He founded an R&D-oriented company more than twelve years ago that designs and produces embedded control and sensor cards for heat recovery systems, micro maximum power point tracking (MPPT), linear BLDCMs, and air gauges. He has been involved in several research projects about industrial automation, robotics, solar cars, and polymer composites that the EU, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, and the Ministry of Science, Industry, and Technology of Turkey supported. Dr. Gören is the founder and has been leading the Solaris Solar Car Projects since 2004. His project groups designed and produced seven solar cars and five electric vehicles, which participated in the World Solar Challenge, Turkish Solar Challenge, European Solar Challenge, France Solar Challenge, Italian Solar Challenge, and Moroccan Solar Challenge.