Faculty
PROF. DR. SAİT CEMİL SOFUOĞLU
(Department Chair)
Education
Ph.D.: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chiago, Illinois, USA, 2001
Research Interests
- Indoor air quality, sick building syndrome
- Indoor air quality and pollution indices
- Ambient air pollution
- Dry deposition
- Environmental exposure assessment
- Environmental risk assessment
- Ecological risk assessment
- +90 232 750 6648
- Engineering Building – A, Room: 160
PROF. DR. ORHAN GÜNDÜZ (IZTECH Scientific Research Projects Coordinator)
Education
Ph.D.: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2004
Research Interests
• Surface and subsurface water quality
• Environmental modeling
• Numerical methods in environmental engineering
• Flow and contaminant transport in surface and subsurface waters
• Dynamic interactions of surface and subsurface systems
• Source/sink terms in environmental modeling
• Environmental impact assessment
• Geographic information systems
- +90 232 750 6857
- Engineering Building – C, Room: D-204
ASSOC. PROF. DR. HATİCE ESER ÖKTEN (Director of Environmental Research Center)
Education
Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 2008
Research Interests
- Wastewater treatment
- Microbial ecology
- Advance oxidation and membran processes in water treatment
- Thermodynamic modeling in biosensor applications
- +90 232 750 6853
- Engineering Building – C, Room: B-202
ASSOC. PROF. DR. ALPER BAYRAKDAR
Education
Ph.D. :Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018
Research Interests
- Anaerobic digestion / Biogas production
- Biogas desulfurization and upgrading
- Sulfate reduction / Sulfide oxidation
- Nutrient removal and recovery
- Microbial fuel cells
- +90 232 750 6858
- Engineering Building – C, Room: B-206
ASSOC. PROF. DR. REGINALD KOGBARA
Education
Ph.D.: University of Cambridge, UK, 2011
Research Interests
- Environmental remediation technologies
- Hazardous waste treatment technologies
- Sustainable waste management & recycling
- Sustainable construction materials utilizing C&D and industrial wastes
- Cementitious materials for environmental applications
- Environmental monitoring and modeling
- +90 232 750 6851
- Engineering Building – C, Room: B-201
ASST. PROF. DR. ALTAN ÖZKAN
Education
Ph.D.: University of Texas, Austin , Texas, USA, 2012
Research Interests
- Algal biotechnology
- Biotechnology
- Biofuels
- Biological wastewater treatment
- +90 232 750 6854
- Engineering Building – C, Room: B-203
ASST. PROF. DR. HALE DEMİRTEPE (Deputy Chair)
Education
Ph.D.: Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TURKEY, 2017
Research Interests
- Remediation of contaminated soils, sediments
- Fate of pollutants in the environment via laboratory and modeling studies
- Biotic and abiotic degradation of persistent organic pollutants
- Indoor contamination and human exposure assessment
- Semi-volatile organic compounds
- +90 232 750 6855
- Engineering Building – C, Room: B-204
ASST. PROF. DR. MEHMET ALİ KÜÇÜKER (Deputy Chair)
Education
Ph.D. : Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, 2017
Research Interests
- Solid Waste Management
- Circular Economy
- E-Waste
- Bio/hydrometallurgy
- Recycling and Recovery of Metals
- Microalgae
- Biotechnology
- Waste to Energy
- Carbon Budget After the Land Use Change
- Determination of Asbestos
- +90 232 750 6856
- Engineering Building – C, Room: B-201
ADJUNCT FACULTY
PROF. DR. AYSUN SOFUOĞLU
Education
Ph.D.: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ABD
Research Interests
- Ambient air pollution
- Dry deposition
- Hazardous Air Pollution
- Industrial Air Pollution
- +90 232 750 6650
- Engineering Building – A, Room: 158
PROF. DR. ALPER BABA
Education
Ph.D: Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, TURKEY
Research Interests
- Grounwater Contamination
- Environmental Geology
- Hydrogeology
- Geothermal Energy
- Engineering Geology
- +90 232 750 6807
- Engineering Building – C, Room: C-201