Dr. Yasemin Dilsad Yilmazel Tokel received her PhD from Villanova University, USA in 2014 and joined Dr. Logan’s lab at Penn State as Postdoctoral Researcher where she worked for more than 2 years. Later she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Upstate New York. In January of 2018, Dr. Yilmazel moved back to Turkey and joined her alma mater as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Yilmazel has dual B.S. degree in Environmental Engineering and in Chemical Engineering both received from METU.
He completed his Master's thesis on start-up of electromethanogenic systems and currently works on scale-up of reactors.
He received his Master's on anaerobic digestion - microbial electrolysis cell (AD-MEC) integration and currently focusing on the life cycle assessment of bioelectrochemical systems.
She has just started working on scale-up of AD-MECs.
Mehmet is a recent graduate of METU ENVE and he is working on nutrient recovery via struvite precipitation.
He is investigating the impact of buffers on AD-MEC systems.
She has recently started working on electro-fermentation.
She is working on hyperthermophilic biohydrogen production from agricultural wastes.
She completed her Master's recently on AD-MEC integration and now works on the scale up of those systems.
ALUMNI OF BIOERG PAST UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS
Current position: Industry
Aykut Kas (MSc graduate, Sept 2021)
Current position: PhD student at UFZ-Helmholtz Center, Germany