Bestami Özkaya

Prof. Bestami Özkaya is a Full Professor at Yildiz Technical University (YTU), in Turkey. He earned his PhD in waste management from the same university in 2004. He moved to Tampere University of Technology, Finland, to perform postdoctoral researh from 2006 to 2008, and was promoted to Associate Professor (2010) and then Full Professor (2013) at YTU. Dr. Özkaya's expertise includes areas of environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, biofuels (biodiesel/bioethanol/biogas), bioenergy, municipal waste management, biohydrogen (acidogenic fermentation), bioelectricity (microbial fuel cell (MFC)), and biodiesel production from waste matrix. He has published over 200 articles in peer reviewed journals and has been involved in more than 50 projects funded by national and international institutes.