Assoc. Prof. Mustafa GÜRSOY

Mustafa GÜRSOY has been working at Yıldız Technical University (YTÜ) since 1993. His main areas of expertise are transportation economics, transportation operations, and transportation planning. In addition to his academic and teaching work, he has provided consultancy services to private sector companies (more than twenty firms) throughout his career. Between June 2016 and February 2017, he served as the Head of the Construction and Technical Office at YTÜ. He also served as the Director of the YTÜ Transportation Research Center for 13 years (2007-2020) and also between 2019 and 2020, he briefly served as the Head of the Transportation Department of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. As an academic, he teaches courses at the undergraduate level in Highway Engineering, Railway Engineering, Railway Design, Prublic Transit Transfer Center Design, and at the graduate level in Transportation Economics and Transportation Operations. He has also supervised twenty-six master's theses and two doctoral theses (one as a co-supervisor). In addition, he participated as a either researcher or project leader in eleven academic research projects funded by various public or private institutions.