Biofuels & Bioenergy

Dr. Parvana Aksoy is currenly a senior researcher at the 1TUBITAK MRC Energy Institute working under Gasification and Combustion group. She received her B.S and M.S. from Department of Chemistry of Çukurova University/Turkey. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry at Çukurova University in 2004. After receiving her PhD degree, she visited Penn State University where she conducted post-doctoral research on the development of thermally stable jet fuels for 6 years. She did an extensive research on producing of jet fuel from coal. Dr. Aksoy also worked as a quality control manager at the private fuel testing laboratory AMSPEC LLC. Her research mainly based on production and upgrading of bio-oils, production of transportation fuels, gasification of coals and biomass.