In 1980, İlyas BOLAT was born in Akkuş, ORDU-TÜRKİYE. In 2011, he completed his doctorate at Bartın University, Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Forestry Engineering. He received the title of Associate Professor from the Inter-University Board (ÜAK) in 2016. He is still working as an Associate Professor at Bartın University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forestry Engineering, Division of Soil Science and Ecology. İlyas BOLAT’s research is focused on teaching and researching forest ecological processes, properties of the forest, pasture, and agriculture soils, relationships between land-use change and soil properties, soil biology, forest nutrient dynamics, spatial and temporal vegetation dynamics, soil microbial biomass and basal respiration. Some of the researcher's publications 1. Bolat, İ. (2019). Microbial biomass, basal respiration, and microbial indices of soil in diverse croplands in a region of northwestern Turkey (Bartın). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 191 (11). 2. Bolat, İ., and Şensoy, H. (2019). Microbial biomass soil content and activity under black alder and sessile oak in the western black sea region of Turkey. International Journal of Environmental Research, 13(5): 781-791. 3. Bolat, İ., and Öztürk, M. (2017). Effects of altitudinal gradients on leaf area index, soil microbial biomass C and microbial activity in a temperate mixed forest ecosystem of Northwestern Turkey. iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 10: 334-340.