Prof. Turan Öztürk received his PhD degree from the University of East Anglia, UK, and then moved to the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, as a postdoctoral fellow, where he developed a new method for the synthesis of fused 1,4-dithiin and thiophene rings from 1,8-diketones using Lawesson's reagent and P4S10. He took up a position at TÜBİTAK MRC, Turkey, then Middle East Technical University, Turkey, and joined İstanbul Technical University (İTÜ) as a full professor. He has previously been British Council Research Fellow, NATO Research Fellow and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and Senior Research Fellow at University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests concentrate on the development of new organic materials, particularly including thienothiophene and dithienothiophene, having electronic and optical properties.