About the PI

Dr. Gurkan is Professor  of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).  Prior to joining CWRU in August of 2016, she trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2011-2013) and at the Polymer Engineering Department in University of Akron (2013-2015) as a postdoctoral researcher.  She received her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame (2011) where she graduated with a Bayer Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship.  She was a RECS Fellow (Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration) in 2011. She has a BS degree from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey (2004) and MS degree from the University of Toledo in Ohio.

Dr. Gurkan is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Electrochemical Society (ECS), and the Materials Research Society (MRS). Her publications have received more than 5000 citations with an h-index of 30 according to Google Scholar.

Dr. Gurkan is a faculty affiliate of the Great Lakes Energy Institute (GLEI) at Case Western Reserve University.  

She was a Thrust Leader for the DOE EFRC Breakthrough Electrolytes for Energy Storage (BEES) (2018-22). She is the Deputy Director of EFRC BEES2; the second phase of BEES Center (2022-26).