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Where material science meets climate strategy.
13 years of international experience spanning industry, consulting, academia, and corporate leadership — turning the complexity of critical materials, emissions, and EU regulation into competitive advantage.
I communicate professionally in English, German, Turkish, and Dutch.
Conversation — KPMG Netherlands, Sustainability Agenda (June 2020, Turkish).
Essay
Why is climate change so hard to solve?
A Sarkaç piece on collective action: scientific warnings and agreements notwithstanding, irreversible tipping points draw nearer. It follows the tragedy of the commons, Elinor Ostrom’s governance lens, the Alanya fisheries case, and why decarbonisation is a harder lift than the Montreal Protocol on ozone — the article is in Turkish.
Read on Sarkaç→Supply chain security and environmental sustainability are not competing priorities — they are two sides of the same coin.
Selected book & press
- BookCritical Materials and Sustainability Transition
Routledge / CRC Press, 2024 — co-edited volume on critical mineral governance, supply bottlenecks, and sustainability transitions.
View on Routledge→ - PressHeilzame Hardware — Down To Earth
Interview on sustainable e-waste processing and recovering copper and gold from electronic waste (Dutch, 2016).
Read on Down To Earth→
