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Orcid ID: ​​​​https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2717-4150 Personal website full URL: https://web.itu.edu.tr/okayo/ Oguz Okay is currently a full Professor of Physical Chemistry at Istanbul Technical University, and a principal member of The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Istanbul in 1977, and a PhD degree in Polymer Chemistry from Vienna Technical University, Austria in 1981. He is the recipient of several awards including Georg-Forster Research Award, Germany (2015), the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) Science Award (2005), Turkish Chemical Society Honorary Member Award (2006), Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (1988), and Sedat Simavi Natural Sciences Award (1995). He is editorial board member of the Turkish Journal of Chemistry, Reactive and Functional Polymers, Elsevier, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Wiley, and Advances in Polymer Science, Springer. His laboratory has been leading contributors in the areas of hydrogels, self-healing materials, macroporous polymers, and rubber elasticity. He has published around 220 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. His H-index is 68 with about 15000 citations.