Bilgen Yuncu

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Bilgen Yuncu is an Environmental Engineer with Draper Aden Associates, a mid-Atlantic engineering, surveying, and environmental services firm, and she serves as a project manager and remediation group leader. Bilgen specializes in bioremediation strategies of hazardous compounds in soil and groundwater. She is the lead engineer on many of Draper Aden Associates’ in situ bioremediation projects. She received her PhD in civil, construction and environmental engineering from North Carolina State University and worked as a postdocto,ral research scholar in the same department. Her PhD work has been mainly focused on taste and odor removal from drinking water by adsorption and ozone oxidation. As a postdoctoral scholar, she conducted research on biodegradation-sorption barriers for munitions constituents. Bilgen holds a North Carolina Professional Engineer license and is a Project Management Professional.

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