Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu Saner Okan received a BS degree in Chemistry at Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey in, 2005. Dr. Saner Okan received an MS degree in 2007 and a Ph.D. degree in 2011 in the Materials Science and Engineering program at Sabanci University. Dr. Saner Okan has been an academic director at Sabancı University Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center since March 2022, and also a research and application-oriented faculty member at the Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering and Manufacturing Technologies at Sabanci University since 2017. In addition, Dr. Saner Okan is a co-founder of NANOGRAFEN Nano Technological Products Company. Dr. Saner Okan develops cost-effective and lightweight automotive composite parts reinforced by waste tire-derived graphene nanoplatelets with part producers and leading OEM partners. Nanografen is on the supplier list of Renault Global for use as a reinforcement in thermoplastics. Dr. Saner Okan has expertise in graphene, polymer nanocomposites, compounding, surface chemistry and electrospinning, recycling and upcycling, and circular economy. She has more than 40 articles published in international journals, 7 book chapters, 2 patents, and more than 50 conference papers in these fields.