Dr. Burak Kulga holds Ph.D. Degree (2014) and M.Sc. Degree (2010) from Penn State University and a B.S. Degree from METU Ankara (2004), all in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. He also holds an M.S. degree in Energy Science and Technology from Istanbul Technical University (2010). His research work consisted of numerical modeling and reservoir simulations in oil and gas reservoirs as well as geothermal reservoirs, His research area also includes carbon dioxide sequestration in geological formations and machine learning applications in oil and gas industry.

He joined İTU family on September 9, 2019. His academic experiences include working as an assistant professor at Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department of Near East University and teaching and research assistant at Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department of Penn State University. He worked as a reservoir simulation engineer at Pusula R&D, a company that focuses on geothermal projects and investments in Turkey and Eastern Africa. He also worked as a production and stimulation engineer at Schlumberger in the USA; as a reservoir simulation engineer at Chevron in the USA; and as a production engineer at PEMI (now TransAtlantic Petroleum) in Turkey. His industry experience includes a wide range of activities including supervising production and drilling operations in East and Southeast part of Turkey, designing hydraulic fracture operations and fluids for shale reservoirs in Ohio, Colorado and Wyoming, uncertainty analysis and probabilistic forecasts for reservoir simulation models, development of full-field geothermal reservoir models, and analysis of geothermal well tests.

Mustafa Özkartal was born in 1974 in Yıldızeli district of Sivas. After completing his primary, secondary and high school education in Sivas, he accomplished his higher education at Atatürk University Erzincan Vocational High School between 1992 and 1994. Subsequent to his higher education, he completed his military service between 1995 and 1997. He started working in Istanbul Technical University in November 1997; and in 1998, he was assigned in Student Affairs Department of Institute of Science. While continuing his employment at İTU, he successfully completed his higher education in Department of Economics at Anadolu University Open Education Faculty between 2001 and 2005. During his assignment in the Institute of Science, he took parts in student information processing, student affairs, student military service procedures, occupational health and safety commission and graduate student orientation processes. Mustafa Özkartal currently holds the position of Secretary of the Graduate School, and he is married with two children.

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