Hi, I am Firat Burat from the Department of Mineral Processing Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye. I completed my undergraduate education at the Department of Mining Engineering at Istanbul Technical University in 2001. I received my M.Sc. in Mining Engineering in 2003 and my doctorate in 2011. After serving as a research assistant between 2004 and 2014, I was appointed an Assistant Professor in 2014 and received the title of Associate Professor in 2018. I served as the head of the department responsible for administrative affairs between 2015 and 2021. I have been working on secondary sources and recycling of waste since 2014. My working topics are recovery from primary and secondary sources, coal enrichment and dewatering, physical enrichment, and flotation. For about two years, I have been working on the selective recovery of components from mobile phone Lithium-Ion batteries through Mineral Processing Processes. I have 32 Sci articles, 6 national articles, more than 100 full-text international conference papers, and 18 national papers, have taken part in 55 scientific and industrial projects as a director and researcher. I am currently lecturing in the undergraduate courses entitled Reclamation of Industrial and Mineral Wastes, Mineral Processing and Environment, and the PhD course entitled Advanced Topics in Mineral Processing.