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## Meet the editors

Dr. İlkay Bakırtaş is a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanics from ITU in 2003. She completed her postdoctoral studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA. She has published eighteen research papers, four book chapters, and twenty-one conference proceedings in the fields of perturbation methods, nonlinear

wave propagation in arteries, optical solitons and wave collapse in optics, and water waves problems. She has also edited two books. Dr. Bakırtaş is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Turkish National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TUMTMK). She received the 2004 Serhat Ozyar Young Scientist of The Year Award and the 2003 Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from TUMTMK.

Dr. Nalan Antar is a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanics from ITU in 1999. She completed her post-doctoral studies at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alberta, Canada, and later participated in academic research projects at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. She has

published thirty-two research papers in peer-reviewed journals, thirteen conference proceedings, and three book chapters in the fields of nonlinear wave propagation in arteries, optical solitons in nonlinear optics, and water waves problems, in particular gravity currents. She has also edited two books. Dr. Antar has supervised many graduate students in applied mathematics. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Turkish National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TUMTM).

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