Dr. Erdoğan Malatyalı earned a Master’s degree from Cumhuriyet University in 2009. He received his Ph.D. in Parasitology from Adnan Menderes University in 2017. From 2006 to 2012, he worked as a research assistant at Cumhuriyet University. He then moved to Adnan Menderes University and worked as a research assistant from 2012 to 2017. He is now an Assistant Professor at Adnan Menderes University. He was the recipient of the F1000 Poster Prize at the 1st International Blastocystis Symposium and the recipient of the Dan Panaitescu Prize at the XXVI World Congress on Echinococcosis.