Prof. Dr. Muzaffer Şeker was elected President of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) in 2019 and re-elected in 2023. By a decision published in the Official Gazette on 14 April 2025, he was appointed a member of the Presidential Science, Technology and Innovation Policies Council. As a professor of anatomy, he continues his academic work at Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine. As President of TÜBA, he represents Türkiye at the Science Summit of the G20 countries (Science 20), the General Assembly of the International Science Council (ISC), ALLEA (All European Academies) and the World Science Forum. He is a member of the World Science Forum Steering Committee and Co-Chair of the 2027 World Science Forum. He represents Türkiye on the science diplomacy platforms of UNESCO and the United Nations, and serves as TÜBA's representative at the UN Climate Change Conference COP31. He held the rotating presidency of the Union of National Academies of Sciences of the Turkic World for the 2024–2026 term and chaired the Union's 8th General Assembly held in Baku (2025). In August 2026, he was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan in recognition of his contributions to morphometric anatomy. He is a Full Member of TÜBA and served on the TÜBA Council from 2012 to 2019. He has served on the boards of professional organizations such as the Turkish Society of Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy, the Basic Medical Sciences Platform and the Association of University Hospitals. He is the founding rector of Necmettin Erbakan University, where he served two terms as rector between 2010 and 2018. He was a member of the Founding Board of Trustees of Istanbul Medipol University (2008–2010). He has served on boards that shape higher education, health and science policy, including the The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) Science Board (2016–2019), the Council of Higher Education's selection committees for the Disability Education and Doctoral Awards, the Higher Education Quality Council (YÖKAK), the Interuniversity Council (ÜAK), the education committees of ÖSYM (Measuring, Selection and Placement Centre), the Ministry of Health's Board of Medical Specialty Education (TUKMOS) and the Health Tourism Supreme Council. He graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Uludağ University in 1986. In 1995, he completed his PhD in Human Anatomy at the University of Leicester Medical School in the United Kingdom with a thesis entitled “The morphometric and immunocytochemical analysis of the human carotid body.” He also holds a bachelor's degree from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Anadolu University. Having begun his academic career as a research assistant at Selçuk University Meram Faculty of Medicine, he became an associate professor in 2000 and a full professor in 2006, and served as head of the Departments of Medical Education and Informatics and of Anatomy. He has authored numerous articles, books and conference papers published in national and international journals on anatomy, morphology, developmental anatomy, neuroscience and morphometric analysis, science diplomacy, medical education and educational technologies, and has supervised 13 graduate and medical specialty theses. His recent work has appeared in journals such as BMC Immunology (2025), Immunologic Research (2024) and the Journal of Surgery and Medicine (2024). Works he has edited at TÜBA include “One Health: Holistic and Sustainable Solutions” (2026), “Science Diplomacy for Global Challenges” (2025), the “Türkiye Maarif Encyclopedia” (2024), “East Anatolian Fault Earthquakes” (2023) and the TÜBA COVID-19 Global Outbreak Assessment Report (2020). Prof. Dr. Muzaffer Şeker is married and the father of three children. 

He was born in Trabzon-Maçka in 1980. He graduated from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History in 2001. He received his master's degree from Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of History in 2004. He received his doctorate from the Department of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2009. He became an Associate Professor in 2013 and a Professor in 2019. 
In 2016, he was awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist Award (TÜBA-GEBİP) by the Turkish Academy of Sciences. 
As a TÜBİTAK and then Alexander von Humboldt fellow, he spent over two years at the Institute of Turkish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin as a visiting scholar, conducting research on Eastern manuscripts in various libraries in Germany. 
He taught part-time at Maltepe University and Istanbul Bilgi University. 
He served as Dean of the Faculty of Literature at Istanbul Medeniyet University (2022-2025). 
He is a full member of the Scientific Board of the Turkish Historical Society and chairs the Society's International Relations and Translation Science and Practice Section. 
His research focuses on the eighteenth century, consumption, material culture, and self-narratives. 

Five books have been published: Politics and Governance in the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard NELC, 2010), The Judge and His Diary (Istanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası Cultural Publications, 2013), Küçükköy Taşlıtarla Gaziosmanpaşa (Istanbul: Gaziosmanpaşa Municipality, 2013), History from Below (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2016), Diplomacy and Literature (Istanbul: Istanbul Medeniyet University & Ankara: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, 2025). 
He publishes a magazine called Ceride.
He was appointed as Rector of İzmir Democracy University by our President, Mr. Recep Tayyip ERDOĞAN, and the appointment was published in the Official Gazette on September 5, 2025.

Prof. Dr. Hülya ŞİMGA earned her bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Boğaziçi University and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Duquesne University in the United States. She currently serves as Vice Rector at Antalya Science University. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Philosophical Society and the Kuçuradi Philosophy and Human Rights Foundation, the Advisory Board of the Sabancı University Center of Excellence in Gender and Women’s Studies (SU Gender), and the Committee on Gender Issues of the FISP (International Federation of Philosophical Societies). Her research focuses primarily on ethics, gender, and women’s human rights.

İsmail ÇETİNKAYA, who graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of Information and Records Management in 1998, completed his master's degree in Business Administration at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University. He worked as a Researcher in the Ministry of Forestry's Ottoman Period Forestry Research Project and publication, as a Librarian at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and as an Instructor at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, and mainly conducted Medical Librarianship and Medical Documentation courses. Çetinkaya served as the Head of the Library and Documentation Department at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University between 2006 and 2021 and has been working as the Head of the Library and Documentation Department at Isparta University of Applied Sciences since January 19, 2021. Çetinkaya, who conducted the Science Board Membership and Information Literacy course in the Primary and Secondary Education Project Execution and Science Counseling Education Project (Science Counseling Workshop in Education) carried out by the TÜBİTAK Scientist Support Department in 2007-2008, and in 2014, he was appointed by the Higher Education Board to study the University Libraries Study. Group (Improving University Libraries and Setting Standards) and was among those who prepared the report titled “The Current Situation of University Libraries in Turkey Towards 2023, Problems, Standards and Suggestions for Solutions”. Çetinkaya, who has been serving as ANKOS Board Member since 2010, has been serving as ANKOS President since 05 August 2022. He continues to share his professional knowledge and experience by taking part in many national and international events in the field of librarianship and publishing. Çetinkaya is married and has one child.

Ertuğrul Çimen has a BS from Hacettepe University Faculty of Literature, Librarianship Department, and an MA from Kadir Has University, Social Sciences Institute, Finance, and Banking Program. His current position is the library director of MEF University.

His professional interests are academic library management, library consortia, license agreements for e-resources, library collaboration, resource sharing, document delivery, lifelong learning, and staff exchange programs for librarians.

He has held active roles in NGOs and professional organizations at both national and international levels. Ertuğrul Çimen currently serves as the Chair of the IFLA Regional Council and is a Member of the IFLA Governing Board. He is an editorial board member of the Information Discovery and Delivery Journal (Emerald Publishing).

In the past, he served as: President of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS), Executive Board Member of the Turkish Librarians Association (TLA), Information Coordinator and Secretary of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Standing Committee, Information Coordinator of the IFLA Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Advisory Board, Chair of the IFLA Europe Regional Division Committee, and a Member of the IFLA Regional Council, Coordinator of the Sustainable Libraries Standing Committee of the University and Research Library Association (UNAK). He has published articles, presentations, book chapters, and research papers in different languages, such as English, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, and Turkish.

He was born in Afyonkarahisar in 1983. He completed his elementary, middle, and high school education in Afyonkarahisar. In 2005, he graduated with honors from the Department of Industrial Engineering at Gazi University.

In 2006, he worked briefly as a Production Planning Manager at Çizmeci Gıda. Subsequently, from 2006 to 2014, he held the positions of Engineer, Member of the Business Development Coordination Board, and Chief of Staff at the Turkish Standards Institute (TSE). In 2014, he began working at TÜBİTAK as Director of Science Centers. Between 2014 and 2024, he held various roles within the TÜBİTAK Science and Society Presidency, including Director of Science Centers, Director of Publications, Deputy President, and Department Head. He served on various boards, including as a Founding Executive Board Member of Deneyap Turkey, a Member of the Science Centers Advisory Board, a Member of the TÜBİTAK-TEKNOFEST Competitions Advisory and Evaluation Board, and a Member of the Publications Board.

Bekir ÇENGELCİ, who is married and the father of four children, has been serving as the Deputy Director of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, responsible for the Cahit Arf Information Center, since July 2024. Together with his experienced colleagues at the ULAKBİM Cahit Arf Information Center, he is involved in carrying out activities of critical importance to our country’s academic endeavors, such as TÜBİTAK Academic Journals, DergiPark, TR Index, the International Scientific Publications Incentive Program, National Academic Licenses (EKUAL), TO-KAT, APERTA, and HARMAN.

Muhammet Mustafa Ölmez is an engineer conducting research in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and AI operations and policies. Ölmez, who completed his master’s degree at North Carolina State University, is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Adana Alparslan Türkeş University of Science and Technology. Currently serving as the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Unit within the Communications Directorate of the Republic of Turkey, Ölmez conducts industry and academic research on the development, implementation, and sustainable management of artificial intelligence and machine learning-based systems. His research and professional interests include Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector, AI Ops, Human-in-the-Loop approaches, machine learning, and forecasting.

Dr Alexander Hasgall is Executive Director of LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, representing over 400 research libraries in 40 countries across Europe. He joined LIBER in March 2026 and served previously as Senior Adviser at the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH) and as Head of International Funding Policy at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). From 2017 to 2023 he was Head of the Council for Doctoral Education at the European University Association (EUA-CDE), where he was also responsible for EUA's work on research ethics and integrity. His current work focuses on Open Science, copyright and the role of research libraries in the changing information ecosystem. He holds a doctorate in Contemporary History from the University of Zurich.

In 2001, she graduated from the Department of Library Science at Hacettepe University’s Faculty of Letters. In 2007, she completed her master’s degree in the Research Methods Division of the Department of Public Relations and Publicity at Selçuk University. In 2015, she graduated from the Department of Russian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Selçuk University. She has worked at institutions such as the Bilkent University Library, the TRT Archives Directorate, Ankara Siyasal Publishing House, the Sakarya University Archives Directorate, the Adana İncilik Air Base Library, the Selçuk University Library and Documentation Directorate, and the Artvin Çoruh University Information Technology Directorate. At these institutions, he has served in roles including reference desk supervisor, archives manager, library unit supervisor, university website director, electronic information resources coordinator, instructor, and department director. He currently serves as the Director of the Library and Documentation Directorate at Artvin Çoruh University. Within the Anatolian Universities Libraries Consortium (ANKOS), he has served as a member of the Web of Science, IOP, and Britannica Online VTS Working Groups, as well as the E-Book Working Group, and as Coordinator of the Licensing Agreements Group. He currently serves his third term as a member of the ANKOS Board of Directors and as Coordinator of the Database Evaluation Group.

Susanne Aerni is Head of Consortial Services and a member of the Executive Board at the Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP). She leads the office of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL) which provides Swiss universities, research institutions, and other academic organisations with access to electronic information resources by negotiating and managing licences on their behalf. Her team supports the member institutions throughout the licensing lifecycle and provides services around Open Access.

She is closely involved in the strategic development of consortial services and the development and implementation of Switzerland’s approach to transformative agreements and Open Access. As process owner for Switzerland’s national Big Deal negotiations on behalf of swissuniversities, she has contributed to the development of national negotiation mandates and governance structures and to negotiations with major international publishers.

Before joining SLSP, she held various roles in market research/business information, primarily at strategy consultancies with a personal focus on telecommunications and media. She graduated in English and German Studies at University of Zurich.

Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director at COUNTER Metrics and Founder of Mellins-Cohen Consulting, has been part of the knowledge community since 2001. She has held roles within and consulted for learned societies and commercial publishers across operations, technology, editorial and executive functions, while donating time to key initiatives and bodies such as UKSG, ALPSP, NISO and STM. In 2022 she started running COUNTER, the standard for usage metrics.

Johan Rooryck is a co-coordinator of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) at OPERAS alongside Pierre Mounier. He also leads the EU-funded ALMASI project that aims to contribute to a non-profit, Diamond Open Access (OA) ecosystem across Europe, Africa and Latin America. He has been involved in various Open Access organisations and projects, from cOAlition S to the EU-funded DIAMAS, CRAFT-OA, PALOMERA, and AEGIS-OA projects. He is one of the founding editors of the Diamond OA journal Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, a journal that transitioned to Diamond OA in 2016 from the Elsevier-owned journal Lingua. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, a doctor honoris causa of UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, and a visiting professor at Leiden University, where he held the chair of French linguistics from 1993 to 2020.

Judit Fazekas-Paragh is a research support librarian and Head of the Research Support Department at the University and National Library of the University of Debrecen (DEENK), Hungary. Her work focuses on advancing Open Science at institutional, national, and European levels. She has been actively involved in OpenAIRE since 2015, serving as the Hungarian National Open Access Desk (NOAD), and is currently a member of the OpenAIRE Executive Board. As a coordinator within HUNOR, the Hungarian Open Repository Working Group, she supports Hungarian research-performing organisations in connecting national developments with the wider European Open Science ecosystem. Her areas of expertise include Open Access, FAIR research data and research data management, Open Science infrastructures, researcher training, and responsible research assessment. She has contributed to national activities related to the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and has been involved in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), including its Task Force on Data Stewardship, Curricula and Career Paths. Since 2024, she has represented the University of Debrecen in the Hungarian National Chapter of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) and contributed to the CoARA Working Group Towards Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment. Through these interconnected roles, she works to strengthen the links between Open Science policies, infrastructures, skills, and research assessment reform.

He graduated from the Department of Library and Information Science/Archival Science at Hacettepe University in 2004. He began his professional career working at the Bilkent University Library from 2002 to 2006. In 2006, he began working as an instructor at the Karadeniz Technical University Library.

As of 2026, he serves as Acting Director of the Library and Documentation Department at Karadeniz Technical University.

He has been working within the ANKOS Artificial Intelligence Research Group since its inception.

Abdullah Demir was born in Kırşehir, Türkiye, in 1980. He graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Uludağ University in 2002. He completed his master’s degree at the same university and received his PhD from Sivas Cumhuriyet University. Between 2015 and 2016, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as a research assistant and faculty member at the Faculty of Theology of Cumhuriyet University. In 2017, he joined the Faculty of Theology at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University as a faculty member in the Department of Kalam, where he continues to serve.

In 2018, with project support from Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Demir developed the İSNAD Citation Style, an academic writing and referencing system. The İSNAD Citation Style has since been translated into English (ISNAD Citation Style, 2020), Arabic (İSNAD: Nizâm Tevsîki’l-Merâci’, 2022), and Persian (Şîvenâme-i İstinâddehî be Reveş-i İSNAD, 2022). Offered free of charge, İSNAD is used, as of August 2026, by 64 graduate schools and institutes for the preparation of postgraduate theses and by 186 peer-reviewed journals in Türkiye and abroad for scholarly article writing.

Demir coordinates the academic event first organised by Sivas Cumhuriyet University in 2018 and subsequently continued under the title Türkiye Editörler Çalıştayı (Türkiye Editors Workshop). He is also the founder of the Türkiye Editors Group, established in 2018 as a platform for sharing experience and exchanging views on peer-reviewed book and journal publishing. The group currently has 1,025 peer-reviewed journal editors as members (www.editorlercalistayi.com).

From 2016 to 2019, Demir served as editor of the Cumhuriyet Theology Journal, which is indexed in Web of Science ESCI and Scopus. He currently serves as editor of Eskiyeni, which is indexed in ESCI. To support journals in monitoring their compliance with scholarly publishing standards, he developed the Peer-Reviewed Journal SWOT Analysis. He has also voluntarily delivered training sessions and contributed to seminars aimed at improving the compliance of Türkiye-based journals, particularly in the social sciences, with international scholarly publishing principles.

Between 2017 and 2021, Demir served as project coordinator of the National Theology Citation Index Project. One of the project’s outputs, DAVET: Database for Religious Studies, is available as an open-access platform (https://davet.org.tr). He also leads other open-access scholarly publishing projects, including TURAN Index: Academic Index of the Turkic World (https://turanindeks.org) and ODİD: Authority Index (https://otoritedizini.org).

In 2020, Demir became the founding president of the Oku Okut Association, established to improve students’ reading skills, promote a culture of reading in society, and provide free services in this field. He continues to serve as its president. The association provides free services through Oku Okut Academy (www.okuokut.org), an online educational portal and book-club platform, as well as Oku Okut Publications, an open-access publishing initiative. He also serves as a Ministry Advisor for the Project for the Identification, Development, and Monitoring of Students’ Vocabulary, launched by the Turkish Ministry of National Education in 2024 (https://sozvarligi.meb.gov.tr).

Demir has published works on the Hanafi-Maturidi understanding of religion, as well as on scholarly research and peer-reviewed publishing. He delivers training programmes and seminars in these fields both in Türkiye and across the Turkic Republics.

In addition to serving on various committees of public institutions in areas related to his expertise, Demir is married and has three children (www.abddemir.com.tr).

Tuğba Koçer earned her bachelor’s degree in 2015 from the Department of Information and Records Management at the Faculty of Language, History, and Geography, Ankara University, and her master’s degree in 2024 from the Department of Information and Records Management at the Institute of Social Sciences, Atatürk University.  She began her professional career in 2017 as a Librarian at the Library and Documentation Directorate of Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, where she took on responsibilities in the areas of artificial intelligence tools, electronic resources and database management, user training, book and thesis cataloging, open access, KİTS, and TÜBESS. Throughout her nine-and-a-half years of experience, she has closely followed developments in information technology, digital and electronic resource systems, and artificial intelligence, and has participated in ANKOSLink events. She aims to contribute to research and development efforts in the field of artificial intelligence in librarianship and is actively involved in the ANKOS Artificial Intelligence Research Group.

Ayşe Damla Çelik works at TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, where she is involved in activities related to Open Science, Open Access, and research infrastructures. Since 2018, she has been contributing to processes concerning electronic information resources and Open Access agreements within the scope of EKUAL (Electronic Resources National Academic License). Over the past two years, she has also been responsible for Aperta and Harman as part of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM’s Open Science initiatives.

She contributes to national and international collaborations in the field of Open Science and is also involved in institutional activities concerning academic integrity and research ethics, as well as in the organisation of events in these areas.

Her work focuses on supporting the development of a more open, reliable, and sustainable research ecosystem in Türkiye.

Dr. Burak Beygirci is the Director of the Library and Documentation Department and the Coordinator of Scientific Publications at Bartın University. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Information and Records Management at Ankara University’s Faculty of Languages, History and Geography. He subsequently completed his master’s degree at Çankırı Karatekin University and earned his PhD in Information and Records Management from Ankara University.

Dr. Beygirci began his professional career in 2015 as a librarian at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, where he assumed various responsibilities in cataloguing and classification, technical services, library automation systems, and the coordination of branch libraries. He joined Bartın University in 2018 and served as a lecturer between 2018 and 2023. During this period, he undertook a range of responsibilities, particularly in technical services, electronic resource management, bibliometric analysis, and library administration. Since 2023, he has served as Director of the Library and Documentation Department. He has also taught courses on cataloguing and bibliometrics in the Department of Information and Records Management at Bartın University since 2021.

Between 2016 and 2025, Dr. Beygirci served as a database liaison for various electronic resources within the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS). He has been a member of the ANKOS Executive Board since 2025. His academic and professional interests include university libraries, open access, electronic resource management, scholarly communication, bibliometric analysis, cataloguing and classification, and scholarly publishing.

She graduated from Hacettepe University with a degree in Information Management in 2008. She began her professional career as a librarian at Ankara University in 2009, where she continues to serve. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Information Management at Ankara University.

Her professional and academic interests focus on academic librarianship, electronic information resources, and scholarly information services. In addition to her responsibilities at Ankara University, she serves as a Database Coordinator within the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS) and is an active member of the ANKOS Public Relations Working Group, contributing to the consortium's activities and initiatives.