**Meet the editor**

Assistant Professor Yusuf Yılmaz was born in Tokat, Turkey. After completing his primary and secondary education in Tokat, he graduated from the chemistry department of Kafkas University in 2008. He started his master's degree education at Yildiz Technical University in 2008 and conducted researches on phthalocyanines during his master's degree education. He completed his

master's degree in 2010 and started his PhD at Gaziantep University in the same year. In 2011, he was appointed as a research assistant to the chemistry department of Gaziantep University. In 2013, he worked as a research assistant at Rhodes University. In 2014, he received the title Doctor of Chemistry, and he was appointed as an assistant professor in Gaziantep University in the same year. Dr. Yusuf Yilmaz has worked on three nationally supported research projects until this time. He has eight international SCI papers, eight international reports, and six national reports about phthalocyanines in total.
