Ayse Akyapi
MSc Environmental Engineer
She graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Department of Environmental Engineering. After completing the MSc Program in Environmental Technology in Boğaziçi University, she started the PhD Program in the same field. Her PhD dissertation studies at Boğaziçi University still continue. During her undergraduate and graduate education, she worked as a researcher and project assistant in national and international projects. In 2012, she started to work as a specialist in the Research Strategy Development and Planning unit of Tigris Development Agency and later served as the head of the unit in the same unit for more than four years. In order to increase her knowledge and experience in industrial symbiosis and circular economy, she took part in various projects as an intern for three months at International Synergies Limited in Birmingham, UK in 2017. Currently, she is working as a Project Coordinator in an EU supported project, as well as providing project consultancy for local and regional development and environmental management projects in the company of which she is a co-founder.