Gizem S.Oztepe received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Ankara University, Turkey, in 2005, 2009, and 2013, respectively. Between 2014 and 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, USA. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ankara University. Dr. Oztepe also serves as an Area Editor for the journal "Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series A1 Mathematics and Statistics". She has been a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) since 2016 and the International Society of Difference Equations (ISDE) since 2023. Her research interests encompass differential equations with piecewise constant arguments, impulsive differential equations, difference equations, fractional differential equations, bifurcation theory, the qualitative behavior of dynamical systems.