Elif ERHAN, Ph.D, Prof.

A founding member of Kerim Foundation, she has been the director of the Institute for Sufi Studies of Üsküdar University initiated by the Foundation since 2015. Her career is based on strategies of project development and management. Her academic background is in Environmental Engineering. She received her PhD from Ataturk University in 2000 and conducted her post-doctoral studies at the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, University of New Castle. She was the faculty member at the department of Environmental Engineering, Gebze Technical University from 2003 to 2015. Her main research topics are clean technologies and biosensors. She gives consulting to firms on innovative processes and Environmental Management Systems.