Oğuzhan Akin received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Ghent University, where his research focused on catalytic pyrolysis of polyolefins to tune product selectivity toward monomers and enhance plastic circularity. His work emphasized catalyst modification strategies to improve product selectivity and catalyst stability, as well as investigating the influence of halogens in waste plastics on the pyrolysis process. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology, continuing his work on catalytic plastic pyrolysis while expanding his research into chemical recycling of halogenated polymers and the thermal degradation of PFAS compounds