Seminar Series of the Faculty of Applied Sciences – Spring 2026 – 4. Seminar

Dear Students of the Faculty of Applied Sciences,

You are kindly informed to welcome the Dean of Faculty of Applied Sciences, Prof. Gökhan Özertan as the guest speaker of the seminar series.

Date      : Thursday, 26 March 2026

Time      : 14:40-15:30

Place     : AB3 #150 / Zeynep Alp Köseoğlu Auditorium

Prof. Gökhan Özertan earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University in 1994 and obtained his PhD in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University in 2001. He was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University between 2001-2025. Throughout his career, he has held visiting positions at the University of Massachusetts Boston (2009–2010) and the Central Bank of Türkiye (2016–2017).

Prof. Gökhan Özertan has led projects funded by EU PRIMA, TÜBİTAK, various Turkish ministries, the UNDP, and the UK Prosperity Fund. In 2019, he participated in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cochran Fellowship Program. Additionally, he served as the rapporteur for the Copyrights Section of Türkiye’s Eleventh Development Plan. Prof. Gökhan Özertan served as the Chairman of the Working Group of the IV. Agricultural Council in 2025.

Prof. Gökhan Özertan’s research focuses on modeling agricultural and environmental processes, the role of technology in agriculture, the impacts of climate change, commodity price dynamics, and the economic implications of intellectual property rights and regulations in the IT sector.

Prof. Gökhan Özertan teaches microeconomics, statistics, econometrics, economics of innovation, agricultural economics, and environmental economics at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

In the seminar class, Prof. Gökhan Özertan will present on “Preparing for 2030: Technology, Sustainability, and the Future”.