E-Mail: byildiz@ku.edu.tr

Sustainability Related Research Interests: City logistics, electric vehicles, shared economy

Sustainability Related Research & Publications:

Kizil, Kerim U., and Baris Yildiz. “Public transport-based crowd-shipping with backup transfers.”

Transportation Scinece (Available at SSRN 3784050) (2022).

Yıldız, B. (2021). Express package routing problem with occasional couriers. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 123, 102994.

TUBITAK 1001 Project: Network design and management problems for social aid distribution operations

Yıldız, B., Olcaytu, E. and Şen, A., 2019. The urban recharging infrastructure design problem with stochastic demands and capacitated charging stations. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 119, pp.22-44.

Yıldız, B., Arslan, O. and Karaşan, O.E., 2016. A branch and price approach for routing and refueling station location model. European Journal of Operational Research, 248(3), pp.815-826.

Yıldırım, Ş. and Yıldız, B., 2021. Electric bus fleet composition and scheduling. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 129, p.103197.

Yildiz, B. and Savelsbergh, M., 2019. Service and capacity planning in crowd-sourced delivery. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 100, pp.177-199.

Yildiz, B. and Savelsbergh, M., 2019. Provably high-quality solutions for the meal delivery routing problem. Transportation Science, 53(5), pp.1372-1388.

Yıldız, B., 2021. Package routing problem with registered couriers and stochastic demand. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 147, p.102248.

E-Mail: coguz@ku.edu.tr

Sustainability Related Position:

Previous Position:

Jury member and mentor for MSCOP: Modelling Sustainable Cross-Campus Operation Program, Koç University-Siemens

Sustainability Related Research Interests:  Sustainable cities and communities, responsible consumption and production

Sustainability Related Research & Publications:

TÜBİTAK 1001 Project – “Gıda İsrafını Önlemek için Gıda Bankacılığı Operasyonlarında Sürdürülebilir Lojistik Problemlerine Matematiksel Modeller ve Çözüm Yöntemleri Geliştirilmesi” (2021-2024)

E-Mail: esenses@ku.edu.tr

Sustainability Related Research Interests: Environmental, economic

Sustainability Related Research & Publications:

Developing bio based adhesives from wood wastes using low  cost and highly efficient microwave technology. This project is a collaborative research between KU and Univ. of Nottingham with industry partner KEAS, and funded through Katip Çelebi Newton Fund program of Tubitak and Royal Academy of Engineering. The aim is to reduce the use of petroleum derived formaldehyde based toxic resins.

Chemical modification of wood fibers for sustainable composite production. Tübitak 2244 project with KEAS.

Smart hydrogels from plant derived lignocellulosic nanoparticles.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.1c00046

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01555

Developing novel polymer based solid electrolytes for replacement of liquid electrolytes that are hazardous, volatile and toxic.  for li ion batteries

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.1c01178

E-Mail: uaydemir@ku.edu.tr

Sustainability Related Research Interests: Thermoelectric, Catalysis, Batteries

Sustainability Related Research & Publications:

Tailoring the Morphology of Cost-Effective Vanadium Diboride Through Cobalt Substitution for Highly Efficient Alkaline Water Oxidation,  E. Sadeghi, N.S. Peighambardoust, and U. Aydemir*, Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 19457.

Stress/pressure-stabilized cubic polymorph of Li3Sb with improved thermoelectric performance, M. Yahyaoglu, T. Soldi, M. Ozen, C. Candolfi, G. J. Snyder* and U. Aydemir*, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 25024.

Phase-Transition-Enhanced Thermoelectric Transport in Rickardite Mineral Cu3-xTe2, M. Yahyaoglu, M. Ozen, Yu. Prots, O. E. Hamouli, V. Tshitoyan, H. Ji, U. Burkhardt, B. Lenoir, G. J. Snyder, A. Jain, C. Candolfi, and U. Aydemir*, Chem. Mater. 2021, 33, 1832

Evaluating electrocatalytic activity of metal-substituted hafnium diboride (Hf1-xTMxB2; TM = Ni and Co) toward water splitting, N.S. Peighambardoust, E. Sadeghi, B. Mete, M. Baris Yagci and U. Aydemir*, J. Alloys Compd., 2022, 905, 164148

Tailoring the Morphology of Cost-Effective Vanadium Diboride Through Cobalt Substitution for Highly Efficient Alkaline Water Oxidation, E. Sadeghi, N.S. Peighambardoust, and U. Aydemir*, Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 19457.

Metal-substituted zirconium diboride (Zr1-xTMxB2; TM = Ni, Co, and Fe) as low-cost and high-performance bifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting, B. Mete, N. Sadat Peighambardoust, S. Aydin, E. Sadeghi, U. Aydemir*, Electrochim. Acta, 2021, 389, 138789.

Effect of Polymer Topology on Microstructure, Segmental Dynamics, and Ionic Conductivity in PEO/PMMA-Based Solid Polymer Electrolytes, R. Bakar, S. Darvishi, T. Li, M. Han, U. Aydemir, S. Nizamoglu, K. Hong, E. Senses*, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2021

E-Mail: skeskin@ku.edu.tr

Sustainability Related Research Interests: Environmental

Sustainability Related Research & Publications:

CO2 capture to reduce global warming

Ongoing project: COSMOS (ERC-2017-Stg) aims to computationally screen porous materials for CO2 capture and H2 recovery (a clean energy carrier)

Recent publication on the topic:

Aksu G.O.,  Erucar I.,  Haslak Z.P.,  Keskin S. “Exploring Covalent Organic Frameworks for H2S+CO2 Separation from Natural Gas using Efficient Computational Approaches” Journal of CO2 Utilization in press (2022). (impact factor of 7.13)

Daglar H.,  Altintas C.,  Erucar I.,  Heidari G.,  Zare N. E.,  Moradi O.,  Srivastava V.,  Iftekhar S.,  Keskin S.,  Sillanpää M. “Metal-Organic Framework (MOF)-Based Materials for the Abatement of Air Pollution and Decontamination of Wastewater” Chemosphere in press (2022). (impact factor of 7.1)

Aydin S., Altintas C., Keskin S. “High-throughput Screening of COF Membranes and COF/Polymer MMMs for Helium Separation and Hydrogen Purification” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces in press (2022). (impact factor of 9.2)