Murat has a multidisciplinary engineering and academic background, with ten years of experience as an electrical building services engineer. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University, and MSc and MRes degrees in Low-Energy Building Services Engineering and Energy Demand Studies in Buildings from Loughborough University, both with distinctions, as well as a PhD in Energy Demand Studies in Buildings.

His postgraduate training covered mechanical building services design, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, building performance modelling (CFD and Dynamic Thermal Simulation), and passive design strategies for low-carbon buildings. His PhD focused on the ventilation effectiveness of single-zone naturally ventilated systems using computational and full-scale experimental methods.

Following his PhD, Murat was a postdoctoral research associate at UCL, contributing to the AIRBODS project and the Event Research Program (ERP) to study ventilation and airborne infection (SARS-CoV-2) transmission. This work provided industry mitigation strategies and data-driven guidance to the UK government, earning a national CIBSE award.

He later joined the University of the West of England, Bristol, as Assistant Professor in Building Services Engineering, teaching courses on building energy demand and services engineering. His research combines experimental and numerical methods to improve energy efficiency, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and airborne infection resiliency in buildings.