Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey / University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Research focus: Biological systems engineering

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Kerem Güngör is an assistant professor at Abant Izzet Baysal University in Bolu in northwestern Turkey and currently also an honorary fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Güngör's research focuses on environmental technologies to prevent phosphorus pollution from animal manure. He is planning to develop waste treatment technologies that use anaerobic digestion, phosphorus recovery, and fermentation in particular. These processes provide biogas, phosphorus minerals, and organic ingredients for biodegradable plastic production, all of them useful resources. Biogas could help decrease dependence on fossil fuels and phosphorus minerals could help replace phosphate rock and phosphoric acid needed for fertilizer production.

Controlled fermentation of organic waste can produce simpler organics, which can be used to produce biodegradable polymers. These polymers can replace comparable petrochemical products, making plastic manufacturing more environmentally sustainable. In the context of the Green Talents Forum, Kerem Güngör is looking for research partners for joint German-Turkish research projects. The Turkish scientist impressed the jury with his many years of scientific experience in his field of research, which he gained during long research stints in the United States, among other countries.