Dr. Yasemin Dilsad Yilmazel Tokel has dual B.S. degree in Environmental Engineering and in Chemical Engineering both received from METU. Dr. Yilmazel received her PhD from Villanova University, USA in 2014 and worked at Penn State as Postdoctoral Researcher for more than 2 years until 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.
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.
She has just started working on scale-up of AD-MECs.
Ece is a Ph.D.student in the ESS interdisciplinary program and is working on LCA of biorefinery systems.
He is investigating the impact of buffers on AD-MEC systems.
She has recently started working on electro-fermentation.
He is working on hyperthermophilic biohydrogen production from agricultural wastes and also on LCA of bioenergy systems.
She works on nutrient recovery from biogas plant effluents.
CURRENT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS ALUMNI OF BIOERG FORMER POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS FORMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS WITHIN ADIM ODTU OR OTHER PROJECTS
Working on AD-MECs within ADEP and 1004 projects. Also an ADIM ODTU recipient.
Ulas Yuzendag (ENVE Class of 2025)
Working on LCA within 1004 project. Also an ADIM ODTU & TUBITAK STAR fellowship recipient.
Current position: PhD student at DTU, Denmark
Feride Ece Kutlar (MSc graduate, 2023)
Current position: PhD student at Wetsus & Wageningen Univ., Netherlands
Mehmet Yagci (Undergraduate researcher & full-time researcher, 2021-2023)
Current position: MSc student at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Yasin Odabas, (MSc graduate, 2022)
Current position: Industry, Turkey
Aykut Kas (MSc graduate, 2021)
Current position: PhD student at UFZ-Helmholtz Center, Germany