Professor Doctor Necmi AKSOY, graduated in Faculty of Forestry ( Karadeniz Technical University) in 1996 and gained MSc and PhD in Istanbul University in Institute of Science, Department of Forestry, Forest Botany Program in the between 1999 and 2006. He is a full Professor in Forest Botany and works of Department of Forest Botany at Duzce University Faculty of Forestry. He published a number of academic studies in national and international areas especially about flora, vegetation, biological diversity. His research focus on dendrology, herbaria, arboretea and botanical gardens and his current interests focus on invasive plants, plant systematic and plant sociology. He is a curator of Herbarium of Duzce University Faculty of Forestry (DUOF) and a director of Botanical Garden of Duzce University with the aim of protecting biodiversity in the western Black Sea Region of Turkey.