Dr. Soydan Ozcan is the Group Leader for the Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies Group in the Energy Science and Technology Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Ozcan also leads the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Hub and Spoke R&D program with the University of Maine (https://umaine.edu/biomaterials). The program addresses the broad and vital issue of identifying novel, high-value biomaterials from renewable sources and viable manufacturing processes.
Ozcan is the Technical Director of Sustainability for the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing Composite Innovation (IACMI). IACMI is the national Composite Institute within Manufacturing USA. He facilitates the development of recycling technologies and utilizes various composite techniques to repurpose them into useful applications.
Ozcan has received multiple prestigious awards, which include Battelle Memorial Institute Distinguished Inventor (2021), two R&D 100 Awards - (2020 and 2021), two CAMX Ace Awards for innovation in green composites (2017 and 2021), CAMX Outstanding Technical Paper Award for Green & Sustainability Track (2018), UT-Battelle’s Engineering R&D Award (2012), and he has contributed to ORNL’s Gordon Battelle Prize for Technology Impact “Low-cost Carbon Fiber and Composites” (2010).
Applied R&D of Ozcan’s team engages over thirty industrial partners and delivers research with more direct applications to society. Ozcan published nearly 100 papers and 10 book chapters and holds 25 patents.
He also held a joint faculty appointment in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville from 2016 to 2020.