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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.
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
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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 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.
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.
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