Sirri Kar is a parasitologist and Professor at the Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Biology Department, Tekirdag, Turkey. He received the veterinary medicine degree in 2002, at the Ankara University, Veterinary Faculty and the PhD degree from Ankara University Institute of Health Sciences, Turkey in 2007. He has carried out the studies on different parts of medical parasitology at the Ankara University Veterinary Faculty Parasitology Department in Turkey, at the Tekirdag Namik Kemal University Biology Department in Turkey, at the Leipzig Veterinary Faculty in Germany in 2006 as part of the PhD program, and at the University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston National Laboratory in the USA in 2019-2020 as visiting scientist. He worked in the international research projects supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and EU 7th Framework Program. His research interests are vector ecology and vector-borne diseases.