Since September 2018, Ozlem is part of the OWI-Lab team. As an application engineer in wind energy she initiates and participates in the innovation projects, to support wind energy companies with technological innovation and testing. She brings in expertise in organising measurement campaigns, in interpreting the measurement results and in translating these results to design requirements or improvements. She is one of the innovation experts in the IBN Offshore Cluster to find synergies between the Belgian offshore wind energy companies and supports them with their research and innovation needs.
Before joining OWI-Lab, Ozlem was a researcher at an energy research centre in the Netherlands in the wind energy unit. She participated in several EU projects and other national funded industrial innovations projects. She brought in applied aerodynamics expertise by means of numerical simulations for rotor designs, and design optimisations in general. She ran and lead complex experiments, both in wind tunnels and in the field. During her career, she identified new research topics and new requirements to support growing wind turbine sizes especially for offshore wind power plants. As a result, she has an helicopter view of the academic and industrial needs for wind energy technology.
Ozlem is an aerospace engineer with both a bachelor's and a master's degree from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. In her early career, she was designing aircraft wings and airfoils and performing design validations by wind tunnel testing as a design engineer in Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara, Turkey.
