Turgut Tüzün Onay

Director of IESc
Office: 
HKE-300
e-mail: 
onayturg@bogazici.edu.tr
web: 
http://web.boun.edu.tr/turgutonay/
Phone: 
+90 212 359 6946/7198
Interest Areas: 

Solid Waste Management

Waste to Energy: biogas and renewable energy

Environmental Impact Assessment

Leachate Treatment

Soil/Groundwater Remediation

Education: 

Ph. D., Environmental Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, USA, 1995

M.S., Environmental Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, TR 1989

B.S., Environmental Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, TR, 1986

Academic Career: 

Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 2008- Present

Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 2002-2008

Assistant Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 1997- 2002

Postgraduate Research Associate Ground-Water Remediation Technologies Analysis Center (GWRTAC), Pittsburgh, 1995-1996

Research Assistant University of Pittsburgh, USA, 1993-1995

Teaching Assistant University of Pittsburgh, USA, 1992-1993

Recent Projects: 

1. “Pretreatment of Petrochemical Industry Wastewater Sludge by Ultrasound Assisted Chemical Methods”, Bogazici University Research Fund (BAP)-İSTAÇ, 2022.

2. “Energy Efficiency and Waste Management: Preparing A Zero Carbon Roadmap in BOSCH Çerkezköy Factory”, BOSCH/BSH, 2021-2022.

3. “Policy Measures on Plastics Waste in Turkey”, WWF, 2021.

4. “Removal and discharge of microplastics from wastewater treatment plants of Istanbul”, Bogazici University Research Fund (BAP), 2019-2021.

5. “Modeling and Analysis of Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality for Eurasia Tunnel”, Yapı Merkezi-ATAŞ, 2014-2020.

Selected Publications: 

1. Wilkinson, J. L., Boxall, A. B., Kolpin, D. W., Leung, K. M., Lai, R. W., Galbán-Malagón, C., ... & Teta, C. (2022). Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (8) e2113947119

2. Vardar, S., Onay, T.T., Demirel, B., & Kideys, A. E. (2021). Evaluation of microplastics removal efficiency at a wastewater treatment plant discharging to the Sea of Marmara. Environmental Pollution, 289, 117862.

3. Gokce, H.B., Arıoglu, E., Copty, N.K., Onay, T.T., & Gun, B. (2020). Exterior air quality monitoring for the Eurasia Tunnel in Istanbul, Turkey. Science of the Total Environment, 134312.

4. Akyol, C., Ozbayram, E.G., Demirel, B., Onay, T.T., Ince, O., & Ince, B. (2019). Linking nano-ZnO contamination to microbial community profiling in sanitary landfill simulations. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 26, 13580-13591.

5. Temizel, I., Emadian, S.M., Di Addario, M., Onay, T.T., Demirel, B, Copty, N.K., & Karanfil, T. (2017). Effect of nano-ZnO on biogas generation from simulated landfills, Waste Management, 63, 18-26.