Metin Ozbek

Affiliation

HGL

Track

Biography

Principal Engineer, Optimization Subject Matter Expert (SME) at HGL. Dr. Ozbek has more than twenty years of consulting and academic experience in hydrogeological investigations and sustainable design. He provides technical support to litigation teams, assists facilities with regulatory compliance, and evaluates remediation alternatives for guiding projects under RCRA Corrective Action and at Superfund sites. His technical expertise in hydrogeology, renewable energy, systems modeling and optimization, programming, statistical analysis, and uncertainty modeling brings a unique and interdisciplinary approach to environmental and energy projects. Representative applications include the least-cost design of well networks to delineate boundaries and migration pathways of emerging contaminant (PFAS) plumes at least cost; the design of ground-source heat pump systems at minimum life-cycle cost; groundwater flow and chemical fate and transport modeling; risk-based least-cost groundwater remediation design; and subsurface characterization using non-probabilistic uncertainty measures in the absence of statistical data. Dr. Ozbek has published his work and served as a reviewer for internationally renowned water resource and risk analysis journals. He taught classes on the design of ground-source heat pump systems at Princeton University and non-probabilistic uncertainty measures at the University of Vermont. Dr. Ozbek holds a doctoral degree from the University of Vermont, as well as a Bachelor’s degree from Bogazici University.