Prof. Dr. Rasoul Daneshfaraz was born in 1972 in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. He completed his bachelor's at Urmia University, Iran. Master's and doctoral degrees from Ege University in Türkiye, respectively. He has published more than 300 articles in journals and conferences, and is a reviewer of reputable scientific journals in his field. He has authored various books on hydraulics, fluid mechanics, and mathematical and laboratory models. He is currently a full professor at Maragheh University and has scientific collaboration with Recep Tayyip Erdogan University in Türkiye.

Dr. Sina Sadeghfam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Maragheh, where he has been a faculty member since 2017. His research focuses on groundwater and surface water modeling, environmental risk and vulnerability assessment, drought, hydroclimate, land subsidence, water pollution, and AI applications in water resources. With expertise in both traditional hydrology and cutting-edge computational methods, Dr. Sadeghfam bridges the gap between environmental science and technology. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious international journals, contributing to advancements in sustainable water resource management. His interdisciplinary work addresses critical challenges such as climate change impacts on water systems and data-driven solutions for environmental hazards.

He was born on September 19, 1975 in Rize. After completing his primary and secondary education in Rize, he started his undergraduate education in 1992 at Istanbul Technical University, Sakarya Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering completed it in 1996. He received his master's degree in Civil Engineering from Sakarya University in 1998 and worked as a field engineer and construction manager in various infrastructure constructions until 2015. Since this date, he has been working as a lecturer at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University. Since 2019, he has been continuing his education in the PhD program at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Department of Civil Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Veli SÜME. He conducts field studies on coastal structures and sand shallowing under the influence of waves. He is married with 3 children. He is a member of the Chamber of Civil Engineers of Türkiye.

Dr. Toprak is a civil engineer and academician in water sciences (M.Sc., PhD). He interests in water resources, hydraulics, fluid mechanics, global climate change, statistics, and fuzzy logic.
He was born in October 8, 1967 in Diyarbakir – Turkey. He graduated from Hizirilyas First School, Ali Emiri Secondary School, and Gaziantep High School in 1979, 1982, and 1985 respectively. He graduated from Dicle University, Engineering Faculty Civil Engineering Department in 1989. Just after graduating, he worked in the private sector for a short period. He completed his MSc studies in 1994 at Firat University and his PhD from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2004. He gets titles Assoc. Prof. and Prof. in 2011 and 2017, respectively.
Dr. Toprak has more than 150 of published studies, which 12 of them are books or books’ chapters in water resources, hydraulics, fluid mechanics, global climate change, statistics, and fuzzy logic sciences. His articles ranked with 1st, 4th, 6th, and 8th ranks in the top 25 article lists. He introduced to two new methods (SMRGT and ZFT) and brought four concepts (“climatic identity”, “time coefficient”, “stream coefficient”, and “ideal velocity”) into literature. The first methodology is developed to automatically construct membership functions and generate fuzzy rules, whereas the second one proposed for determining the water losses in drinking water – networks. The first concept related to the global climate change. The next two of them are used for modeling monthly mean flow in poorly gauged basins. The last one is a new concept for cross – sectional velocity distribution of any pipe or open channel flow.
He was supported with Overseas Fellowship by British Hydrological Society (BHS) and IRD to attend conferences namely British Hydrological Society and Balkan Water Observation and Information System (BALWOIS) respectively, in 2004. He has been invited to about 200 scientific meeting held in more than 20 countries (i.e. USA, Russia, Australia, UK, China, India, Spain, Algeria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Republic of South Africa, and Egypt etc.). He invited to an International Conference held in USA in 2013 and to Climate and Environmental Physics Laboratory of Natural Science Institute, Civil Engineering Department, and Turkish Language and Literary Department of Ural Federal University for serial seminars and short courses in 2014. Similarly, he has been invited to Republic of South Africa in 2018 for consultancy on both water resources and drought, for presenting serial seminars, and giving short courses at University of Free State.
He held the Workshop on Water Sciences and their Application (SUBIC 2021), National Hydrology Congress (UHK 2017) and National Symposium on Modern Methods in Science (BMYS 2010) as the chair of the meetings. He organized and/or placed in the list of scientific and organizing committees of numerous national and international scientific meetings. He has worked as reviewer for more than 30 international journals indexed by SCI. He has also worked as consultant, reviewer, and panelist for the projects applied to the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and to the many other institutions. He has directed numerous masters and doctoral thesis. He was responsible to sub-tile namely “Training, Knowledge and Capacity Building Strategies” under 6th Theme at the 5th World Water Forum held in Istanbul in 2009.
He rewarded two times Academic Performance Award and one of master's thesis he supervised was deemed worthy of the “Best Thesis Award” in the "Thesis Award Contributing to Environment, Health, Economy and Sustainable Development" category in 2022.
He is member of the “Chamber of Civil Engineering (IMO)”, “Society of Fuzzy Systems (BUSIDE)”, “Dicle University Natural Hazards Research and Application Center (DAFAM)”, “Fuzzy Logic and Its Technology (BUMAT)”, “Oriental Studies Association” (ŞAD), “Architectures and Engineers Group (MMG)”, and “American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE – During PhD)”.
He had worked as Vice – Rectors of Sirnak University (2018 – 2019), the head of Civil Engineering Department at Dicle University (2017 – 2018), vice-chair at the same department (2005 – 2009), and was director of both Renewable Energy Application and Research Center and Solar Energy Application and Research Center (2017 -2021).
Currently he is the head of the Civil Engineering Department of Dicle University. Plays chess, writes poem.

Rasoul Daneshfaraz was born in 1972 in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. He completed his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees at Urmia University, Iran, and Aegean University, Turkey, respectively. He has published more than 300 articles in journals and conferences, and is a reviewer of reputable scientific journals in his field. He is the author of various books in the fields of hydraulics, fluid mechanics, and mathematical and laboratory models. He is currently a full professor at Maragheh University and has scientific collaboration with Recep Tayyip Erdogan University in Turkey.

Prof. Dr. Bülent VEREP, who is working in the Department of Basic Sciences, Marine Biology, Faculty of Fisheries, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, was born in Trabzon in 1971, graduated from Trabzon High School in 1987, and graduated from KTÜ Sürmene Faculty of Marine Sciences, Fisheries Technology Engineering Program in 1992, and received the title of engineer. In 1995, he completed his postgraduate studies titled "Environmental Forces Affecting Sea Cages" and became a Fisheries Engineer. Afterwards, he completed his doctorate studies in 1999 with his study titled "A Study on the Evaluation of the Hydrographic Characteristics of Uzungöl in Terms of Fisheries and Recreation" and became a Fisheries Doctor. In 2007, he passed the Associate Professorship exams held by the Interuniversity Board and received the title of Associate Professor.

Prof. Dr. Bülent VEREP has generally continued his academic activities in the fields of Marine and Inland Water Biology, water quality and pollution, environmental problems affecting aquatic ecosystems and aquatic toxicology. He has taken part in scientific research and social projects at national and international levels as an executive and researcher.

9 Aralık 1990 tarihinde Ankara'da doğdum eğitim öğrenim sürecime bu şehirde başladıktan sonra Erzincan ilinde devam ederek Erzincan Anadolu Lisesi'nden mezun oldum.  Yeni bilgiler öğrenmek, öğrendiğimin üstüne yeni bilgiler katmak ve iyi bir kariyere ulaşmak için severek başladığım inşaat mühendisliği ve uluslararası ilişkiler bölümünü (açık öğretim) 2014 yılı itibari tamamladım. Daha sonrasında kendime ve kariyerime katkı sağlayacağına inandığım İngilizce ve Rusça dillerini öğrenmek için kurslara katıldım. Bu şekilde iyi seviyede İngilizce okuma ve yazma yeteneği ile orta seviyede konuşma yeteneğine sahip oldum ayrıca temel seviye Rusça okuma ve yazma bilgisine mazhar oldum. Yine bu dönemde bilgisayar işletmenliği sertifikası aldım, Autocad, SAP200 ve 3D Max gibi kurslarına katılarak bu programları kullanabilecek bilgileri edindim. Ayrıca bireysel olarak ekonomi üzerine okumalar yaptım ve Excel VBA kullanımı hakkında çalıştım. Sonrasında 2016 yılında AB destekli (PYEIS) TRH 1.2.PYEIS/P-03/712 numaralı Okuldan Hayata projesine ve KOSGEB Uygulamalı Girişimcilik Eğitimine katıldım. Aynı yıl başladığım yüksek lisans eğitimimi Sera Tipi Hafif Çelik Konstrüksiyon Yapılarda Eleman Ve Birleşimlerin Tasarımı isimli tezimle 2019 yılında tamamladım. Yüksek lisans sürecimde ders dönemini tamamladıktan sonra Epsilon İnşaat Dumlu Şantiyesi'nde teknik ofis mühendisi olarak çalıştım ve halihazırda 2021 yılından itibaren Kuzeydoğu Anadolu Kalkınma Ajansı'nda uzman olarak çalışmaktayım.  2020 yılında Trabzon Ticaret Odası Dış Ticaret İstihbarat Elemanı eğitimini başarıyla tamamladıktan sonra doktora eğitimime Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi’nde başladım. 2025 yılı itibarıyla tez aşamasında olduğum doktora eğimim devam etmektedir.  

1981 yılında Malatya’nın Hekimhan ilçesinde doğdu. 2003 yılında İnönü Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Türkçe Eğitimi Bölümünden mezun oldu. 2008 yılında yüksek lisans eğitimini, İnönü Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Türkçe Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalında, “Gülten Dayıoğlu’nun Çocuk Öykülerinde Değer Eğitimi ve Öykülerin Türkçeye Katkısı” adlı teziyle bitirdi. Doktora eğitimine 2010 yılında İnönü Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü Türkçe Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalı Türkçe Öğretmenliği Programında başladı. 2003-2012 yılları arasında Malatya’da MEB’e bağlı okullarda Türkçe öğretmeni olarak çalıştı. 2012 yılında Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Türkçe Eğitimi Bölümüne öğretim görevlisi olarak atandı. Doktora öğrenimini 2016 yılında “Sekizinci Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Tartışmacı Metin Yazma Becerileri ile Bu Becerilere ilişkin Öğrenci ve Öğretmen Görüşleri” adlı teziyle tamamladı. 2018 yılından itibaren Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Türkçe Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalında öğretim üyesi olarak görevine devam eden araştırmacının “Küçük Mektebliye: Yeni Millî Kırâ’at Kitabı Üzerine Bir İnceleme”, “Gülten Dayıoğlu’nun Çocuk Öyküleri (İnceleme)” adlı kitaplarının yanı sıra Türkçe eğitimi, yazma eğitimi, metin bilgisi ve çocuk edebiyatı alanlarında ulusal ve uluslararası çeşitli yayınları mevcuttur. Yazar, evli ve üç çocuk babasıdır.

Cüneyt Kaya is a fish taxonomist at the Faculty of Fisheries at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University in Rize, Türkiye. Freshwater fishes have always been his main academic and personal interest, and he has always been motivated to pursue a career working with them. His main interests are the conservation, diversity, and distribution of freshwater fishes. His research also focuses on the effects of ecological change, including invasive species and habitat change, on aquatic fauna. During his career, he has published more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers and described 50 new species of freshwater fishes.