Nazmiye Ozkan

Position:	Senior Research Fellow
Work Area:	Environment Group
	Contact Details Education and Expertise Projects Publications Other Information

Contact Details

Education

Ph.D.: Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.

M.Sc.: Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University, 1997.

B.Sc.: Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University, 1995.

Expertise

Nazmiye joined the PSI Environment Group in February 2005. Prior to joining PSI, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her main research interests include integration of environment, economy and energy models; modelling and analysis of regional energy systems and their relationship to overall economic growth and development; analysis of climate change impacts and their implications for local healthcare policy and provision. Nazmiye holds a PhD in Regional Planning from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Projects

Current Projects

• Analysing Transition planning and Systemic Energy Planning Tools for the implementation of the Energy Technology Information System (ATEsT)
• Carbon Calculations over the Life Cycle of Industrial Activities (CCaLC)

Completed Projects

• State-of-the-art modelling of hydrogen infrastructure development for the UK: Geographical, temporal and technological optimisation modelling
• UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium (UKSHEC)
• UK Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium 2 CORE
• United Kingdom Energy Research Centre (UKERC)

Publications

• Balta-Ozkan, N., Strachan, N., Kannan, R., and Joffe, D. (2008) Energy Systems Modelling of UK Hydrogen Scenarios under Carbon Constraints and Alternate Tax Regimes, submitted to Energy Policy

• Strachan, N., N. Balta-Ozkan, D. Joffe, K McGeevor, and N. Hughes (2008) Soft-linking energy systems and GIS models to investigate spatial hydrogen infrastructure development in a low carbon UK energy system, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 34, Issue 2, January 2009, Pages 642-657

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• Balta-Ozkan, N., K. P. Donaghy and C. R. Wymer (2007) ‘Effects of Trade on Emissions in an Enlarged European Union: Some Comparative Dynamics Analyses with an Empirically Based Endogenous Growth Model’, in Cooper, R.J., Donaghy, K.P., and Hewings, G.J.D., (eds.) Globalization and Regional Economic Modeling, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 316-353

• Donaghy, K.P., N. Balta-Ozkan, and G.J.D. Hewings (2007) ‘Modeling Unexpected Events in Temporally Disaggregated Econometric-Input-Output Models of Regional Economies’, Economic Systems Research, 19(2), 125-145.

• Balta-Ozkan, N., R. Kannan and N. Strachan (2007) ‘Analysis of UKSHEC Hydrogen Visions in the UK Markal Energy Sytem Model’, UKSHEC Social Science Working Paper No.32, Policy Studies Institute, London.

• Joffe, D., N. Strachan and N. Balta-Ozkan (2007) ‘Representation of Hydrogen in the UK, US and Netherlands Markal Energy Sytem Models’, UKSHEC Social Science Working Paper No.29, Policy Studies Institute, London

• Donaghy, K.P., J. F. Vial, G.J. D. Hewings and N. Balta (2005) ‘A sketch and simulation of an integrated modeling framework for the study of interdependent infrastructure-based networked systems', in A. Reggiani and L. Schintler (eds), Methods and Models in Transport and telecommunications: Cross-Atlantic Perspectives, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 93-117.

Other Information

Previous publications

• N. Balta, K. Donaghy and C. Wymer, 'Meeting Kyoto targets in an Enlarged European Union: Comparative dynamics analyses with an empirical endogenous growth model', the 1st Atlantic Workshop on Environmental and Energy Economics, September 9-12 2004, Spain.
• N. Balta, and K. Donaghy, 'Rawlsian and Paretian Approaches to Environmental Policymaking in an Expanding European Union', the 50th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 20-22, 2003.
• N. Balta and K. Donaghy, 'Harmonization of Environmental Policies Between the EU-15 and New Accession Countries', workshop on "Trade and the Environment in the Perspective of the EU Enlargement" by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano (Italy), May 17-18, 2001.
• N. Balta, K. Donaghy and B. Orland, 'Understanding and Responding to Climate Change at the Regional Level: Applications of On-line DSSs', American Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference in Atlanta, November 2-5, 2000.
• N. Balta, 'Change in firm population and spatial variations: The case of Turkey', the 38th Congress of the European Regional Science Association, Vienna, Austria, August 28- September 1, 1998.
  

Memberships

Regional Science Association International.

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