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Prof. Dr. Oğuz Bayraktar 
Prof. Dr. Oğuz Bayraktar received his Bachelor's degree from Ege University, Chemical Engineering Department in 1993. He received Master's and Doctorate degrees from West Virginia University in the United States. In 2001, he started to work as an Assistant Professor at the Izmir Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering. In 2006, he received the title of Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He received the title of Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2012 and worked as a faculty member at the Izmir Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering. He worked as Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Ege University between 2014-2020. In 2022, he established the NATCO Ltd start-up company. He is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Ege University. His fields of study are biotechnology and bioengineering, and he actively continues his research in the interdisciplinary field. Determination of biological activities of natural compounds obtained from plants, isolation, purification, production, bioconversion of natural compounds, cosmetics, and functional food applications are among his main interests.