Rate My Professor Nazmiye Ozkan

Professor Nazmiye Ozkan serves as Professor in Sustainable Energy Transitions and Head of the Centre for Energy Systems and Strategy at Cranfield University. She is an interdisciplinary energy economist whose research examines interactions between social, economic, environmental, and technological systems from household to city scales. Ozkan holds a BSc (Hons) in Urban and Regional Planning and an MSc in Regional Planning from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, followed by a PhD in Regional Planning with a specialization in Environmental Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her career trajectory includes a postdoctoral researcher position at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2005 to 2014, she worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute, University of Westminster, leading multiple research projects on energy systems and environmental policy.

At Cranfield University, Professor Ozkan's academic interests encompass modelling and analysis of energy transitions at various scales, development of socio-technical frameworks for energy planning and policy, socio-spatial models for energy innovation, economics and distributional impacts of energy transitions including energy justice, energy systems analysis, integration of environment-economy-energy models, and social construction of smart grids with policy implications. Her influential publications include the highly cited 'Social barriers to the adoption of smart homes' (2013, 944 citations), 'The prospects of zero-packaging grocery stores to improve the social and environmental impacts of the food supply chain' (2017, 384 citations), 'European smart home market development: Public views on technical and economic aspects across the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy' (2014, 287 citations), and 'Regional distribution of photovoltaic deployment in the UK and its determinants: A spatial econometric approach' (2015, 272 citations). Recent contributions feature 'Towards a unified theory of domestic hydrogen acceptance: an integrative, comparative review' (2024), 'Gauging public perceptions of blue and green hydrogen futures: is the twin-track approach compatible with hydrogen acceptance?' (2024), 'Fuelling hydrogen futures? A trust-based model of social acceptance' (2025), and 'Synthesised innovation drivers and barriers in the energy sector' (2026). Through these works and leadership in grants on hydrogen production, renewable energy, and low-carbon aviation, she advances understanding of sustainable energy pathways.