Erdogan-Orhan Ilkay

Prof. Dr. Ilkay Erdogan Orhan holds a Pharmacist degree (1993) from Gazi University (Ankara, Turkey), 1st M.Sc. degree at Department of Pharmacognosy at the same Faculty (1996) with scholarship provided by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). Then, she was awarded her second M.Sc. degree in Marine Natural Product Chemistry in 1998 at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan supported by Monbusho scholarship. She earned Ph.D. degree in Pharmacognosy at Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University (Ankara, Turkey) in 2002 and visited Department of Chemistry at Univ. of Winnipeg (Canada) in 2003 as post-doc under NATO-TUBITAK fellowship . She was promoted to Assoc. Prof. position by Higher Education Council of Turkey in 2004 and became full professor in 2009. Dr. Orhan was appointed as “Dean” of Faculty of Pharmacy at Eastern Mediterranean Univ. in the Northern Cyprus (2011-2014) and now Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi Univ. since 2016. She is principal member of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). She is author of more than 285 SCI-listed papers. Her h index is 50 (WoS) and 56 (SCOPUS) with over 11500 citations and awardee of TWAS award in Chemistry for 2024.