Önder, E. R.

Elif Rakici Önder is a Process Manager at TÜPRAŞ İzmir Refinery with diverse refinery experience of more than 14 yr. She joined TÜPRAŞ in 2007 and has worked both in refinery operations and in the process department. She began her career as a Process Engineer in a wastewater treatment plant and then went on to work in offsites and utilities, desulfurizers, diesel hydrotreaters, hydrocrackers and an integrated two-stage hydrocracker unit. Before becoming Process Manager in 2020, she was Hydroprocessing Superintendent at TÜPRAŞ Head Office, and was responsible for optimization studies, catalyst evaluation, troubleshooting, and evaluating short- and long-term projects in hydroprocessing units. Ms. Önder received her BS degree in chemical engineering in 2002 from Bosphorus University Faculty of Engineering, İstanbul, Turkey.