Feride Severcan, a professor of biophysics, majored in physics. Following a long-term tenure in the Department of Biological Sciences at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Türkiye, she is currently working in the Department of Biophysics at Istanbul Aydın University's School of Medicine. Throughout her academic career, she has undertaken long- and short-term training and collaboration visits to various institutions in the USA, including Rochester and Stanford Universities, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the State University of New York at Albany. Additionally, she has conducted research at European institutions such as Perugia, Bath, London, and De Montfort universities, and visited the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) as an associate member in biophysics. She has more than 200 publications on the structure and function of model and biological membranes; protein structure and stability; disease characterization and biomarker determination; disease diagnosis by chemometrics; drug-disease interactions; ecotoxicology; microbiology; and food and plant sciences. She is one of the editors of the book titled “Vibrational Spectroscopy in Diagnosis and Screening”. She serves as an editorial board member for Scientific Reports and was the guest editor of the “Infrared Collection.” Since 2020, she has been listed annually in the world's top 2% scientists list published by Stanford University and Elsevier.