Dr. Başak Tuna  received her B.Sc and M.Sc degrees (Chemical Engineering) from the Kocaeli University in 2011 and 2013 respectively. She obtained her PhD in the Chain Extension of PA-6 and PA-6/organoclay nanocomposites, sponsored by Government of Türkiye in 2016 from University of Bradford (Chemical Engineering) under the supervision of Professor Hadj Benkreira (CEng, FIChemE). During her PhD study, she worked as a researcher at the University of Bradford Advanced Materials Engineering Research & Knowledge Transfer Group integrated within the Polymer Interdisciplinary Research Centre (Polymer IRC) and since then her research contribution has been notable particularly in the areas of  polymer processing technologies and nanocomposites. Then, she returned to Kırşehir Ahi Evran University as an assistant professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. Dr. Tuna has been principal investigator or researcher of several research projects supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (Tübitak) and other national organisations. She has been also the panel member of esteemed EU funded projects such as Eureka Programme and M-ERA.NET, referee of several Tübitak projects (1501, 1507, 1701, 3501 etc.) and reviewer of more than 30 journals indexed in SCI &SCI-E. Besides her engineering background, Dr. Tuna has also M.Sc. degree in Pharmaceutical Technology programme from Ege University (2022).  Dr. Tuna's research recently focuses on developing novel processes to manufacture high performance materials such as  nanocomposites, recycling of plastics, pharmaceutical engineering and cosmetology.