Ayşen Erdinçler

Prof. Dr. Ayşen Erdinçler received her BSc. degree and her first MSc. degree in Environmental Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey in 1986 and 1989, respectively.

She received her second MSc. degree and the PhD degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University, NC, USA in 1991 and 1996, respectively. She has been working as a full professor at Boğaziçi University Institute of Environmental Sciences since 2008, where she has started working as an assistant professor in 1997.

Her areas of interest are “sustainable waste management”, “treatment and disposal of wastewater sludges”, “biomass energy”, and “waste-to-energy systems”.

In 2019, she was appointed as the Head of the Environmental Protection and Development Department of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.