Assoc. Prof. Dr. Turan Uysal graduated from the Department of Mining Engineering at İnönü University in 2008 and served as a Research Assistant in the same department between 2010 and 2018. In 2019, he carried out postdoctoral research at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Mineral Processing Engineering. Between 2021 and 2023, he worked as the Coordinator of the Mineral Processing Group at the Rare Earth Elements Research and Application Center of Munzur University. Since 2024, he has been a faculty member at Gümüşhane University, Department of Mining Engineering, and in 2025 he spent two months as a visiting researcher at the Indonesian National Research Center focusing on rare earth elements. His research interests include ore beneficiation, rare earth elements, hydrometallurgy, solvent extraction, and techno-economic analysis. He has participated in EU and TÜBİTAK projects (1001, 2218) as a researcher and fellow, led a TÜBİTAK 3501 project, and served as principal investigator or researcher in seven BAP projects. He has authored more than 20 SCI-E indexed journal publications.