Mehmet Volkan Duman

Mehmet Volkan Duman has been working at South Marmara Development Agency since 2014, where he has devoted most of his practice to mining activities, advanced materials, defence industry, energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies, green hydrogen, recycle and reuse within the context of sustainable development. He has produced reports and strategy documents for these sectors, including relevant action plans. He has completed the evaluation and monitoring phase of more than 100 regional projects in these fields. In his career, a special emphasis should be placed on the green hydrogen economy. The first regional basic hydrogen roadmap in Türkiye was created by him and he has published several papers and reports on green hydrogen policies. In addition, he has participated as invited speaker and has given many presentations in many organizations. Prior to 2014, he spent 7 years in the mining sector. Except his first job at one of the metal recycling plants, this was his first long-term professional experience. With this fresh start in mining sector, boron became the main element of his new career until the end of the year 2013. He worked at different production sites so he became familiar with many different chemical processes. He had two main responsibilities in Eti Maden, one of the state-owned company in Türkiye: he was the head of laboratory where 50 workers, 1 chemist, 3 chemical engineers are working; and also he was in charge of waste water treatment plant used for boron removal from the base water of open pit mines. The boron treatment plant is the first of its kind in Türkiye. He wrote a master's thesis on this facility and his articles were published in important journals. He earned many certificates for critical laboratory instruments among which XRF is one of the most crucial.- He has three user certificate for three different brands of XRF instruments. And now; he is the project coordinator of Türkiye's first Hydrogen Valley Project and also he is the project officer of a national project titled "South Marmara Hydrogen Shore Platform" in which Türkiye's first home-grown green hydrogen pilot plant will be installed.

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS:

1- B.S. Department of Chemical Eng. - Middle East Technical University, 2006

2- M.S. Department of Environmental Eng. - Balıkesir University, 2012

3- Power MBA, Management Trainee Unit - Sabancı University, 2023

4- Energy Management Certificate, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, 2021

5- Project Officer, Guided Project - South Marmara Hydrogen Shore Platform, 2023

6- Project Coordinator, CHJU Hydrogen Valleys Call - South Marmara Hydrogen Shore (HYSouthMarmara), 2023