Nizami Gasilov is a Professor at Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey. He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, in 1984 and 1989, respectively. From 1987 to 2001, he was with the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include mathematical modeling, numerical methods, fuzzy sets and systems, fuzzy differential equations, graph theory, and modeling of equilibrium and stability in tokamaks, as well as ionospheric modeling.