Osman Tugay works as a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Specializing in flowering and seed plants, Prof. Dr. Osman Tugay conducts interdisciplinary national and international scientific studies in the fields of scientific Latin nomenclature of plants, plant systematics, ethnobotany, medicinal plants, and pharmaceutical botany. Within the scope of these studies, he has authored more than 250 scientific studies, 71 of which are SCI certified, and has taken part in more than 50 projects supported by TÜBİTAK, the European Union, ministries, and universities. Prof. Dr. Osman Tugay has served as a Member of the Advisory Board at TÜBİTAK and is the author of the "Illustrated Flora of Turkey," one of the most important works on Turkish plants. He has conducted various studies on plants especially in England, Switzerland, Scotland, Germany, and Russia. Some of the distinguished scientific works of Prof. Dr. Osman TUGAY, who is also a Botanical Painter, are as follows: 13 new plant discoveries from Turkey for the scientific world; He has served as a manager and researcher in 10 TÜBİTAK 1001 projects; as a manager and researcher in 11 Ministry projects; as a consultant for a TRT Documentary on Endemic Plants; as the author of 5 books; and as the author of 1 TÜBİTAK Book Award. Prof. Dr. Osman TUGAY is also the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Selçuk University (Konya, Turkey).