Nalan KABAY is a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ege University, Turkey and has been working at Ege University, Turkey since 1984. She graduated from Ege University and received her PhD from Kumamoto University, Japan in 1992 through a Monbusho Scholarship. She worked as a post-doc at National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Japan between 1998 and 1999 by a grant of STA-Japan. She visited Loughborough University and Imperial College-London, UK several times through the grants of the Royal Society, EPSRC and British Council between 1996 and 2008. She was Vice-Dean of the Engineering Faculty of Ege University between 2003 and 2009, a member of the steering committee of the Engineering Research Group at Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (TUBITAK) between 2004 and 2007. Professor Kabay has around 160 SCI papers, several book chapters and has acted as guest editor of several special issues of international journals such as Reactive and Functional Polymers, Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange, Desalination, Water Research. She is the co-editor of three books. She is a member of editorial boards for 4 international journals and an honorary member of Japan Ion Exchange Society. Her main interests are ion exchange, membrane separation processes (MBR, NF, RO, ED, EDR, EDI, BMED, RED), desalination, wastewater reclamation and reuse, recovery of boron and lithium from water.