Tuğçe ORAL, Ph.D

Dr. Tuğçe Oral completed her undergraduate studies in the Department of Geophysical Engineering at Istanbul Cerrahpaşa University; in 2013, she completed a minor in the Department of Maritime Transportation and Operations Engineering at Istanbul Cerrahpaşa University. She earned her master’s degree in 2020 from the Occupational Health and Safety program at Üsküdar University; and she completed her Ph.D. in the Occupational Health and Safety Ph.D. Program at Üsküdar University in 2024 with a dissertation titled “Development of an IoT-Based Digital Application for Monitoring Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders Among Employees.”

She continues her academic work in the fields of occupational health and safety, safety culture, risk assessment, occupational hygiene, post-disaster worker safety, and the effects of climate change on worker health and safety. She has a particular interest in research that brings together engineering, health sciences, and digital technologies through a multidisciplinary approach. She actively participates as a project leader and researcher in national and international projects; in addition, she conducts research on the integration of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and digital technologies into occupational health and safety applications.

Dr. Tuğçe Oral currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Health and Safety at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Üsküdar University.