Serbay DURAN 1983 yılında Malatya’da doğmuştur.

İlk ve orta öğrenimini Malatya’da tamamlamıştır.

2004 yılında İnönü Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Matematik Bölümünde lisans,

2006 yılında Fırat Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsünde Uygulamalı Matematik Bilim Dalında bilim uzmanlığı derecesini almıştır.

2012 yılında Fırat Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsünden Uygulamalı Matematik Bilim Dalında doktora derecesini almıştır.

2022 yılında Üniversitelerarası Kurul Başkanlığından Uygulamalı Matematik Bilim Dalında doçentlik ünvanı almıştır.

Halen Adıyaman Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi’nde görevine devam etmektedir.
 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nihal Şimşek Özek received her bachelor's degree from the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, in 2001. She completed her master's degree (2004–2007) and PhD (2007–2015) in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Middle East Technical University (METU). Her area of expertise is biophysics, and her work spans molecular biophysics, biological spectroscopy, and the life sciences.

Dr. Şimşek Özek worked as a research assistant at METU from 2004 to 2016. She has continued her academic career at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Atatürk University, since 2016, and at Atatürk University's East Anatolia High Technology Application and Research Center (DAYTAM) since 2017. She also served as Deputy Director of DAYTAM between 2019 and 2024.

Dr. Şimşek Özek has served as principal investigator and researcher on numerous national and international scientific projects. Her research draws on advanced biophysical techniques such as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), FTIR spectroscopy, and cytotoxicity assays, with a particular focus on the effects of natural compounds on cancer cells and the identification of toxicological biomarkers.

She has contributed to more than 110 scientific publications in internationally indexed (SCI, SSCI) journals, along with numerous conference proceedings. Her H-index stands at 16 on both Scopus and Web of Science and 19 on Google Scholar. Her work has been cited 635 times on Web of Science, 722 times on Scopus, and 973 times on Google Scholar. Her ORCID ID is 0000-0002-7326-5670.

As part of her scientific publishing activities, she has served as an editorial board member of the Turkish Journal of Zoology. Since 2025, she has been serving as a field editor for the Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University Journal of Science. She has also made significant contributions to the literature on the interdisciplinary applications of spectroscopic techniques in fields such as forensic science, toxicology, tissue engineering, and environmental biotechnology.