• Energy sector reform & commercial frameworks
• Efficacy of energy regulators
• Electricity market design

Ph.D. Economics, Boston College, 1996

B.A. Economics, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1990

Senior Energy Economist, Center for Energy Economics, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy Economics (June 2005 – Present).

Researcher, Institute for Energy Law and Enterprise, University Law Center (June 2002 – May 2005).

Researcher, Energy Institute, Bauer College of Business, University of Houston (January 1997 – June 2002).

Scholar in Residence, Duke Energy International, Houston (February 2000 – August 2000).

Graduate Assistant, Boston College, Department of Economics (September 1990 – May 1996).

Books, Manuals
Gülen, Gürcan, and Wood, Pat, forthcoming, Laying the Groundwork for Power Competition in Texas, chapter in Electricity Restructuring: Texas Story, a book by American Enterprise Institute.

Gülen, Gürcan, Foss, M. M., and Hitchcock, David, 2003, Guide to electric power in Texas, 3rd edition: Institute for Energy Law and Enterprise, University of Houston Law Center and Houston Advanced Research Center.

Foss, M. M., Shenoy, Bhamy, and Gülen, Gürcan, 2000, "Monetizing" stranded gas: the case of Turkmenistan and considerations for explorationists, in International oil and gas exploration: a business perspective: Tulsa, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Articles
Gülen, Gürcan and Hossain, Ijaz, 2007, Life-cycle Analysis of Different Urban Transport Options for Bangladesh, Energy Policy, v. 35, p. 4909-4918.

Joseph Essandoh-Yeddu, Gülen, Gürcan, and Asante, Felix, 2007, “Net WAGP Economic Benefit Requires Ghana Development,” Oil & Gas Journal, August 27, 2007, p. 68-73.

Gülen, Gürcan, Makaryan, Ruzanna, and Volkov, Dmitry, 2007, Improving regulatory agency efficiency and effectiveness: best practices, processes and organizational structures, in Proceedings, 11th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, Reykjavik, Iceland, 23 p.

Shenoy, Bhamy, and Gülen, Gürcan, 2006, “What Should India’s Long Term Refining Strategy Be?” March 2006, Chartered Financial Analyst magazine published by the ICFAI University Press in India.

Foss, M. M., Gurfinkel, M. E., and Gülen, Gürcan, 2006, Historical data provide low-cost estimating tool: Oil & Gas Journal, November.

Editor, Dialogue, quarterly newsletter of the United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE)

VP Conferences, USAEE, 2006-07.

Officer, Houston Chapter, USAEE, 1998-2001.