Evaluation works for the year of 2020 were concluded regarding “TUBITAK Science, Special, Service and Incentive Awards” and “Polar Research Award” granted by the TUBITAK in order to support research and development activities in scientific and technologic fields, and allow researchers to be improved and new scientists to be trained.
4 Science Awards, 1 Special Award and 13 Incentive Awards were granted by the TUBITAK Board of Directors. Winners of two science awards, respectively, are Prof. Dr. Mustafa Soylak who is an editorial board member of our academic journal named Turkish Journal of Chemistry and Prof. Dr. İsmail Türkan who is an editorial board member of the Turkish Journal of Biology and Turkish Journal of Botany. Prof. Dr. Mustafa SOYLAK was granted the Science Award for “his superior-quality works at the international level on pre-concentration and separation methods, especially on solid phase extraction and micro-extraction in the field of Analytical Chemistry”, and Prof. Dr. İsmail TÜRKAN was granted the Science Award for “his superior-quality works at the international level in the field of botany, particularly plant stress physiology and molecular physiology”.
We congratulate our both scientists for their success and thank them for their valuable contributions to the science world and our academic journals which are searched on important indexes like SCI and Pubmed Central.