Doç. Dr. UĞUR KORKUT PATA

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Ugur Korkut Pata is an associate professor of economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Türkiye. He received his PhD degree in 2019 from Karadeniz Technical University in Türkiye. His research interests include energy economics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. He has published in several journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, such as Ecological Indicators, Energy, Gondwana Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources Policy, and Renewable Energy. The researcher is among the 2% of the world's most influential scientists for 2021 and 2022 listed by Stanford University. He also became the youngest associate professor of economics in Türkiye at the age of 29. His PhD thesis titled “An Empirical Analysis of the Environmental Kuznets Curve with Types of Energy Consumption: The Case of Türkiye” was awarded the best PhD thesis of 2019 by the Environment Foundation. He also serves as an associate editor of Web of Science-indexed journals such as Geoscience Frontiers (Elsevier) and Natural Resource Modeling (Wiley). He is also the first scientist to empirically investigate the determinants of the load capacity factor and to propose the load capacity curve (LCC) hypothesis in the environmental economics literature.