Dr. Volkan Kilicli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in the same department in 2001, 2004, and 2010, respectively. He worked at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) for 1 year as a postdoctoral fellow. His areas of interest are materials characterization, semi-solid processing of aluminum alloys, and heat treatments of cast irons and steels.