Nazmiye Gürel Cennetkuşu got her BA from English Language Teaching Department, Education Faculty, Hacettepe University in 2001. She started her career working as an English teacher at a government primary school right after her graduation. In 2004, she received a scholarship from Turkish Higher Education Council to pursue her graduate studies. In 2005, she registered at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA where she got her Ed.M. degree on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (2007) and her Ph.D. on Foreign and Second Language Education (2010). While working as an assistant professor at Harran University, she was granted a scholarship for post-doctoral studies from TUBITAK (the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) in 2014. She studied on “the examination of successful practices of academic writing” with international graduate students in the USA. She is currently working as an assistant professor at the Translation Studies Department and as the vice-director of the School of Foreign Languages, Harran University. Her research interests are advanced second language acquisition, advanced academic writing in the second/foreign language, cultural studies, and foreign language policies.   

University Department of Life Sciences, University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari, Santacruz (East), India

I am a professor of Invertebrate Zoology and Ecology at the University of Oradea, Department of Biology, PhD coordinator at Biomedical Sciences Doctoral School of our university.

My main research interests are macrozoobenthic invertebrate communities, the impact of invasive species, conservation biology in protected areas, and human impacts on fauna (transport, hydrotechnical structures, pollution).

Dr. Mustafa Akkuş serves as an Assistant Professor at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Fisheries. His areas of expertise include fisheries management, fishing gear, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and hunting. He earned his bachelor's degree in Fisheries from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University in 2007 and completed his master's and doctoral studies at the same institution in 2010 and 2016, respectively. Dr. Akkuş continues to contribute to academia as an Assistant Professor at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University.

Faraham Ahmadzadeh is an associate professor of biodiversity and nature conservation in the Department of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management at the Environmental Sciences Research Institute of Shahid Beheshti University in Iran. He earned his Ph.D. in Biology from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Bonn University in Germany in 2013. With over two decades of experience, he has dedicated his work to biodiversity and wildlife conservation. He has authored over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and mentored 40 postgraduate students, focusing on molecular biodiversity, molecular ecology, and conservation. He has collaborated on national and international projects, honing his teamwork skills. Over the last nine years, he has been recognized four times as one of the top researchers at his university in Iran. He encourages his working group to analyze ecological and evolutionary processes that have shaped the diversity of life on our planet and to cultivate a profound appreciation for the natural world.