Urbanization of Urban Solid Waste as a Socio-Spatial Phenomenon: the case of Ankara, Turkey

With my dissertation project, I aim to focus on the relationship between changing patterns of urbanization and changing urban waste management practices with regards to urban waste management decision-making processes in Turkey.

• Urban waste
• Urban and urban infrastructure policy planning processes
• Theories of urbanization
• Social and environmental (in)justice
• Political ecology

Education

Present - 2014 - Graduate School of Topology of Technology, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany; Doctoral Fellow 

2010 - 2012 New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey; Master of Science in Architecture - Urban Systems

2006-2008 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Master of Science in Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments

2002-2006 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Bachelor of City and Regional Planning

Work Experience

January 2014 – Present, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; Researcher under SUSTAIN Project 

September 2012 – January 2014, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Ankara, Turkey; National Consultant

September 2012 – March 2012, Free Lancer as Expert

July 2011 – March 2012 Regional Environmental Center (REC) Turkey, Ankara, Turkey; Project assistant

August 2010 – May 2011 New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ; Teaching Assistant

January 2007 – July 2010, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Research/Teaching Assistant