Hikmet Guliyev was elected as the Director of the Institute of Folklore of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) in 2025.
In 2015, he successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “The Wise Old Man Archetype in Azerbaijani Folklore.”
In 2018, he earned the title of Associate Professor in the field of folklore studies.
In 2024, he successfully defended his Doctor of Science dissertation in Philology titled “Internet Folklore: Theoretical-Methodological Context and Folkloric Meaning-Making.”
He is the author of six books and around 60 scholarly articles published both domestically and internationally, and he has participated in numerous national and international conferences. Four of his articles have been published in journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.

I graduated from the Department of Turkish Philology at Shumen University in 1997. Since 2000, I have been teaching and conducting academic research at the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Shumen University. I received my PhD in 2018 with my thesis entitled "Contemporary Turkish Legal Terminology". In 2022, I obtained the title of Associate Professor with my monograph entitled "Polite Expressions in Turkish: Words of Address, Greeting, and Farewell". Since 2001, I have authored 11 books related to the teaching of Turkish in schools and universities. I have also contributed to 12 dictionaries in Bulgarian-Turkish and Turkish-Bulgarian languages, covering various fields from commerce to law, gastronomy to the plant kingdom. I have edited books used in elective Turkish language courses in Bulgaria.