Oguz Okay received his PhD degree in polymer chemistry from Vienna Technical University, Austria in 1981. He worked in the TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, University of Stuttgart, Technical University of Clausthal, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Eastern Mediterranean University, and Kocaeli University. Currently, he is a full Professor of physical chemistry at Istanbul Technical University and a principal member of The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA). He is the recipient of several awards including the Georg-Forster Research Award from Germany (2015), TUBITAK Science Award (2005), and Turkish Chemical Society Honorary Member Award (2006). His research expertise includes design of soft and smart polymeric materials. He has authored around 200 peer-reviewed papers cited ~10000 time.