Resat Apak graduated from Istanbul University (IU) with B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering. He completed his postgraduate diploma in Marine Pollution at Liverpool University, and obtained his Ph.D. from IU. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Division of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Türkiye. He also serves as an editorial board member of Talanta, J. Anal.Chem., and Anal. Letters. He has published 351 peer-reviewed research articles and reviews (with more than 25,000 citations), and four textbooks. His research interests include method development for the determination of antioxidants and other food constituents, explosives, and biologically and environmentally important compounds. He is a Principal Member of TUBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences), and also a fellow member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).