Serhat AKIN is a professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, where he has Bsc, Msc and a PhD degree in petroleum and natural gas engineering. He has served on the faculty since 1998. Prior to joining METU, Dr. Akin was a post-doctoral researcher in Petroleum Engineering Department, Stanford University between 1997 and 1998. He was Blaustein Visiting Professor in Petroleum Engineering Department, Stanford University at 2006. Dr. Akin has published more than 130 technical articles, reports, and conference proceeding papers. His research interests include reservoir engineering, EOR especially thermal, geothermal, reservoir simulation, tracer, and well test analyses. He received the Society of Petroleum Engineers Outstanding Technical Editor award in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2014. He also received Prof. Dr. Tarik Somer award in 2004 and the Middle East Technical University Academic Achievement award between 2001 and 2015. He was an associate editor of the SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering between 2007 and 2013. He is currently an editorial board member in Computers & Geosciences. Dr Akin served in several SPE committees including Education and Accreditation, STAR Award and International Faculty Award committees.