Organizing Committee Member
Huseyin Gokcekus
Professor
Near East University, North Cyprus
Turkey
Biography
Prof. Dr. Huseyin Gokcekus was born on 23 December 1960 in Nicosia, Cyprus. He graduated from the Department of Geological Engineering in the Faculty of Sciences at Ankara University in 1982, and completed his Ph.D. studies at Middle East Technical University in 1990. He has already published 80 articles that focus on water problems, the environment, earthquakes, tourism and education: most of them being in English, and has conducted the editorial position of many books. Prof. Dr. Gokcekus is a member of several national and international scientific foundations and institutions. He has twice obtained Cyprus-American Scholarship Program Short Term Training Grants given by the USA - Cyprus Fulbright Commission; one of them being on Environmental Assessment of Abandoned Mine Sites, and the other being on Integrated Water Resources Management. He was elected for membership of the Higher Education Planning, Evaluation, Accreditation and Coordination Council (YÖDAK) on 25 October 2010 and appointed for a term of 4 years.
Research Area
His fields of research are wastewater reuse, groundwater recharge, energy recovery from sludge, and transboundary water transport.