Rıdvan Say is currently working as a professor at Bionkit Co Ltd., Eskisehir, Turkey. He graduated from Hacettepe University, Department of Chemistry Education, in 1989. He received his Ph.D. degree from Hacettepe University, Department of Chemistry, in 1998. In 1992, he worked as an Invited Researcher at Heidelberg University with a DAAD scholarship. Dr. Rıdvan Say won the İhsan Doğramacı Outstanding Achievement Award in 1988-1989, the Anadolu University Science and Technology Incentive Award in 2002, the Tübitak EU FP New and Emerging Technologies (NEST)/STREP Project Proposal Encouragement Award in 2005, and the Tübitak Incentive Awards in 2006. His main research interests are molecularly imprinted polymers, purification of biomolecules such as enzymes, proteins, antibodies, nucleic acids and hormones by chromatographic methods, photo-crosslinking of proteins and enzymes, development of sensors, synthesis and applications of hydrogels. He has written more than 186 articles and 8 book chapters on his research interests. He has supervised more than 20 MSc theses and PhD theses.