Prof. Telat Yanik

He works at Atatürk University's Faculty of Fishery, Turkey. He visited Ohio State University and studied molecular genetics and aquaculture from 1992 to 1994. He was appointed as full professor in 2004 at Ataturk University, where he has supervised various master and doctoral theses. He has participated in Turkey’s National Development Programs. He attempted to encourage the establishment of aquaculture in rural areas. He coordinated with European Union cooperation projects. He studied the application of the project-based learning (PBL) approach in vocational high schools at Agri ibrahim Cecen University as part of a European Union project co-organized by the IC Foundation and Greece, Italy, Romania, and Spain. He also worked in France as part of European Union projects he headed. He worked on bilateral projects with the Belarus National Sciences Research Unit under the authority of TUBITAK. He attended the FAO-NACE summit in Armenia. He was invited to be a resource person for climate change courses at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and PSG University in India. He was invited to be a plenary speaker at symposiums at Punjab University in Pakistan and Murmansk University in Russia. He worked as vice rector and head of the foreign relations office at ibrahim Cecen University. He was the Mevlana and Erasmus programs' institutional coordinator. He formed collaborations and visited America, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, India, Pakistan, Germany, England, Holland, Greece, Bulgaria, Portugal, Denmark, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Chile, Iran, Georgia, and Morocco for a range of activities. He is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. TUBITAK, the Turkish Scientific Council, has recognized several of his research articles. His papers have acquired over 800 citations in SCI-indexed journals. His articles were featured as the most referenced (1-4) in the Turkish Publication of Veterinary, a SCI-indexed journal, in 2017.
He is now the Dean of the Faculty of Fisheries at Ataturk University. He likes science, statistics, and traveling.