Prof. Dr. Özgül EROL

Trakya Üniversitesi, Edirne-Türkiye

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emre Atılgan completed his undergraduate studies in 2003 at Hacettepe University's Department of Economics. He obtained his master's degree in 2005 and his Ph.D. in 2012 from the same university's Department of Economics. He began his academic career in 2004 as a lecturer at Pamukkale University, then served as a research assistant in the Econometrics Department of Pamukkale University from 2005 to 2006, and in the Economics Department of Hacettepe University from 2006 to 2011. Between 2011 and 2013, Atılgan worked as an expert at the Trakya Development Agency. In 2013, he was appointed as an assistant professor in the Health Management Department of Trakya University and was promoted to associate professor in 2017. His academic and administrative roles have included Vice Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Head of the Health Management Department, and Director of the Technology Transfer Application and Research Center. Atılgan's areas of expertise are health economics and microeconomics, and his interests include photography, music, and sports. ​

She is the member of Research Group on Methodology, Methods, Models and Outcomes of Health and Social Sciences (M3O) and the professor (Serra Húnter Program) at the Faculty of Health Science and Welfare of the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia. She is giving lectures on Qualitative Research Methodology and Surgical Nursing and participating as a lecturer in certain laboratory teaching activities of nursing students.

She earned her nursing degree in 2006 and master degree in 2008, both at Haliç University (Turkey). She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Surgical Nursing at Istanbul University (Turkey) in 2014. Her Ph.D. thesis was about the effect of mirror therapy on the management of phantom limb pain which brought a professional nursing care perspective into this subject. Her main research topics are pain management nursing, pain management in children, phantom limb pain, underestimation of pain by health providers, and the effect of positive affirmations on symptom management.

She has academic teaching and investigation experience since 2007. She took a part as the board member of the European Nursing Student Association (ENSA) between the period of 2013-2014. On the other hand, she is currently collaborating as a reviewer in 5 scientific journals.

She has 20+ articles in indexed peer-reviewed journals, 50+ studies presented in international congresses. She was awarded 6 times in five national and one international nursing congresses with the studies she presented.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür KAYAPINAR was born in Afyonkarahisar in 1979. He completed his Master's degree at Akdeniz University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Business Administration in 2008, and his PhD at Trakya University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Business Administration in 2016. He worked as a Lecturer at Namık Kemal University Saray Vocational School Business Management Program between 2009-2018. Since 2018, he has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems at Uzunköprü School of Applied Sciences. As of May 2024, he received the title of Associate Professor from the UAK (Interuniversity Board) in the field of "Marketing". He conducts studies on logistics service quality, marketing research, current marketing approaches, consumer behavior, multivariate quantitative analyses, qualitative analysis methods, and digital marketing.