Journal Boards

Owner

Yücel Oğurlu
Prof. Dr. Yücel Oğurlu
BALIKESİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Administrative Law

Editor-in-Chief

NG
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nuray Gedik
BALIKESİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Coastal Sciences and Engineering

Editors

Dilek Türker
Prof. Dr. Dilek Türker
Balıkesir Üniversitesi
Aquaculture and Fisheries, Biological Sciences, Hydrobiology
Fırat Evirgen
Prof. Dr. Fırat Evirgen
Balıkesir Üniversitesi
Numerical Solution of Differential and Integral Equations, Biological Mathematics, Ordinary Differential Equations, Difference Equations and Dynamical Systems
Alaaddin Toktaş
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alaaddin Toktaş
BALIKESİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ, MÜHENDİSLİK FAKÜLTESİ, MAKİNE MÜHENDİSLİĞİ BÖLÜMÜ
Solid Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Material Design and Behaviors
Sümeyye Aydoğan Türkoğlu
Cancer Biology, Biological Network Analysis, Gene Expression, Animal Cell and Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Other)
Taner Özcan
Assoc. Prof. Taner Özcan
BALIKESIR UNIVERSITY, NECATİBEY FACULTY OF EDUCATION
Plant and Fungus Systematics and Taxonomy, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Plant Morphology and Anatomy, Industrial Biotechnology
Simge Sertkaya Köybaşı
Asst. Prof. Dr. Simge Sertkaya Köybaşı
BALIKESİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ, MÜHENDİSLİK FAKÜLTESİ
Natural Resource Management, Environmental Biotechnology, Climate Change-Impact and Adaptation, Environmental Engineering, Waste Management, Reduction, Reuse and Recycling, Renewable Energy Resources , Wastewater Treatment Processes

Associate Editors

Huseyin Kucukozer
Prof. Dr. Huseyin Kucukozer
BALIKESİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Physics Education, Education
Hüseyin Küçüközer is professor at the department of Mathematics and Science Education (Physics Education), Balikesir University, Turkey. His major area is physics education. His mains interests are conceptual change, conceptual understanding and developing teaching materials.
Kaan Türker
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kaan Türker
BALIKESİR Ü. MÜHENDİSLİK FAKÜLTESİ
Steel Structures , Earthquake Engineering, Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Born in Balıkesir, Türkiye, in 1974, he completed his primary and secondary education in Balıkesir. He received his B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Uludağ University in 1995. He earned his M.Sc. degree in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree in 2005 from the Institude of Sciences at Balıkesir University. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, at Balıkesir University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses.

Tuğba Keskin Gündoğdu
Prof. Dr. Tuğba Keskin Gündoğdu
İZMİR DEMOKRASİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Bioprocess Design, Fermentation, Bioengineering (Other)
Haris Nalakath Abubackar
Dr. Haris Nalakath Abubackar
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier ITQB NOVA
Protein Engineering, Fermentation, Structural Biology, Proteomics and Intermolecular Interactions
TY
Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuğba Yıldız
ABANT İZZET BAYSAL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, MÜHENDİSLİK-MİMARLIK FAKÜLTESİ
Stochastic (Probability ) Process, Manufacturing Management, Industrial Engineering, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Machine Learning, Decision Support and Group Support Systems, Optimization in Manufacturing
RB
Prof. Dr. Ruhan Benlikaya
Balıkesir Üniversitesi, Necatibey Eğitim Fakültesi
Science and Mathematics Education, Nanotechnology, Physical Chemistry

Ruhan Benlikaya serves as a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Science Teaching at Balıkesir University, Necatibey Faculty of Education. She completed her undergraduate education in the Chemistry Teaching program at Balıkesir University in 2000, received her Master's degree in 2003, and earned her PhD in 2009 from the Balıkesir University Institute of Science, Department of Chemistry. Benlikaya, who began her academic career as a research assistant in 2000, worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Tomas Bata University in the Czech Republic between 2012 and 2014, and was promoted to the rank of Professor on July 14, 2021. Her research areas include chemistry education, nanoscience and nanotechnology teaching, polymer-clay nanocomposites, and carbon nanotube-based sensors, and she has published numerous scientific articles at the international level . Throughout her career, Benlikaya has held various administrative positions, such as Co-head of Department and Vice Dean. She currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Composite Research Education and Simulation Application and Research Center, Chair of the Science and Engineering Sciences Research Ethics Committee, and as a member of the Quality Education-Training Sub-Commission and the Accreditation Commission

Advisory Board

Muhammed Atamanalp
Prof. Dr. Muhammed Atamanalp
Atatürk Üniversitesi
Fisheries Technologies
MB
Prof. Dr. Murat Erhan Balcı
BALIKESIR UNIVERSITY
Lighting, Power Plants, Electrical Machines and Drives, Electrical Energy Generation (Incl. Renewables, Excl. Photovoltaics), Electrical Energy Transmission, Networks and Systems, Electrical Energy Storage
BF
Prof. Dr. Burhanettin Farizoglu
BALIKESİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ, MÜHENDİSLİK FAKÜLTESİ
Waste Management, Reduction, Reuse and Recycling, Water Treatment Processes, Wastewater Treatment Processes, Environmental Pollution and Prevention, Treatment Facility Design, Pollution and Contamination (Other), Water Quality and Water Pollution, Environmental Biotechnology (Other)
Akram Begmatov
Prof. Dr. Akram Begmatov
Tashkent State Transport University
Ordinary Differential Equations, Difference Equations and Dynamical Systems

Akram Khasanovich Begmatov is a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, and a leading expert in the fields of integral geometry, tomography, and ill-posed and inverse problems of mathematical analysis and physics. He is a worthy successor to the scientific school of Academician M. M. Lavrentiev.
He was born on October 3, 1959. In 1982, he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University — one of the world’s top universities, consistently ranked among the top 100 globally.
He defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation in 1991, and his Doctoral dissertation in 1998 at Novosibirsk State University (NSU), which is ranked among the top 350 universities in the world.
Prof. Begmatov has 45 years of scientific and teaching experience. Throughout his career, he has successfully combined research, teaching, and academic administration, having served as an assistant professor, department head, dean, and vice-rector. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as a visiting professor at POSCO College in Gwangju, South Korea. He is currently a professor at the Joint Belarus-Uzbek Interindustry Institute of Applied Technical Qualifications (SBUIPTQ) in Tashkent.
He has participated in six scientific projects under national programs, two of which he led himself, focusing on youth and startup innovation. Under his supervision, three PhD dissertations, eleven master's theses, and twenty bachelor's theses have been completed.
He has authored over 190 scientific and methodological works, including 152 journal articles, 2 monographs, 2 textbooks, 7 study guides, and 5 methodological manuals. He holds four patents and software certificates. Thirty-five of his papers have been published in journals indexed by Web of Science and Scopus. A significant portion of his research is devoted to the theory of mathematical tomography.
Prof. Begmatov has taken part in international conferences in Japan (1999), Russia (1993–2009), Latvia (2010), and Israel (2019, 2024). He is on the editorial board of the journal Balıkesir Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi and is a member of two specialized academic councils (DSc and PhD) in Samarkand and Nukus.
Among his students are recipients of prestigious national awards — including the Presidential Scholarship and the Ulughbek State Scholarship.
Akram Khasanovich is a respected educator, an innovator in academic practice, a dedicated mentor to young scholars, and a person deeply committed to both science and family values. He is the proud father of six children and grandfather of five.

Kemal Yürümezoğlu
Prof. Dr. Kemal Yürümezoğlu
DOKUZ EYLÜL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Physics Education, Special Talented Education

Kemal Yurumezoglu is an professor in the Department of Special Education (Gifted Education) at Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey. He received his master’s degree in physics education in 2000 from the University of Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France, and his PhD in science education in 2005 from the University of Strasbourg, France. His research interests are in conceptual physics, gifted education, STEAM education and inquiry-based physics activities.

BA
Sustainable Architecture
GB
Prof. Dr. Gaye Birol
İZMİR DEMOKRASİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Architectural Design, Architectural History, Theory and Criticism, Urban Design
SS
Prof. Dr. S.s.s. Sarma
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Limnology

S.S.S. Sarma (Full name rarely used in publications: Singaraju Sri Subrahmanya Sarma, born on 24 September 1958), PhD obtained in 1988, is an aquatic ecologist, known for his research contributions in the field of freshwater zooplankton. He is full time Professor of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (= Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, known in the abbreviated form as UNAM) at its north Mexico City Campus, FESI, Tlalnepantla (Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala). He has published more than 300 articles and book chapters of which more than 285 scientific works are from standard journals, including Nature, indexed in Web of Science (Core collection) / Scopus. He has edited/co-edited 14 special volumes for prestigious publishers including Springer, Elsevier, Francis & Taylor, and Acad. Env. Biol. He is currently Editor of Rotifer News, a virtual newsletter for professional and amateur investigators of phylum Rotifera. He is/was on the Editorial Board of different journals belonging to Standard Publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, MDPI, Frontiers Media SA, Acad. of Env. Biol., Francis & Taylor, Bentham Open, Oxford University Press, Public Library of Science, DergiPark and Biomed Central.

DB
Prof. Dr. Derya Bostancı
ORDU ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Fish Biology, Hydrobiology, Aquatic Toxicology
Savaş Yılmaz
Prof. Dr. Savaş Yılmaz
Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi
Hydrobiology, Freshwater Ecology, Fish Biology
MB
Prof. Dr. Makhsud Bobojanov
Tashkent State Technical University named after Islam Karimov
Electrical Machines and Drives
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sema Çarıkçı
İZMİR DEMOKRASİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Natural Products and Bioactive Compounds, Organic Chemistry (Other), Organic Chemistry
Süleyman Uzuner
Asst. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Uzuner
Balıkesir University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering
Wastewater Treatment Processes, Environmental Engineering (Other), Treatment Facility Design, Environmental Engineering, Engineering
Ozge Buyukdagli
Dr. Ozge Buyukdagli
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO
Optimization in Manufacturing, Stochastic (Probability ) Process, Industrial Engineering, Data Analysis
Baybars Ali Fil
Prof. Dr. Baybars Ali Fil
Balıkesir Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Çevre Mühendisliği Bölümü
Environmental Biogeochemistry, Treatment Facility Design, Environmental Engineering, Ecological Applications
AE
Dr. Atena Eslami-Farouji
Shiraz University
Plant and Fungus Systematics and Taxonomy, Ethobotany, Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Plant Morphology and Anatomy, Biogeography and Phylogeography, Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis

Language Editor

Erman Köybaşı
Res. Assist. Erman Köybaşı
BALIKESİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ, MÜHENDİSLİK FAKÜLTESİ
Control Theoryand Applications, Control Engineering, Intelligent Robotics, Embedded Systems

Layout and Managing Editor

Serhad Onat
Res. Assist. Dr. Serhad Onat
BALIKESİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Translational and Applied Bioinformatics, Molecular Targets, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Other), Enzymes, Nanobiotechnology, Animal Cell and Molecular Biology

Editorial Office

Res. Assist. Harun Mert İlbeyli
BALIKESİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ, MÜHENDİSLİK FAKÜLTESİ
Machine Design and Machine Equipment, Optimization Techniques in Mechanical Engineering, Material Design and Behaviors
Tuba Mumcu
Res. Assist. Tuba Mumcu
Balıkesir Üniversitesi
Plant Physiology, Hydrobiology, Algology
Last Update Time: July 7, 2026