Prof. Hasan BAYDAR

He was born in 1968 in the village of Acıkuyu in Şereflikoçhisar district of Ankara. He completed his primary education in Şereflikoçhisar and his secondary education in Ankara. In 1989, he graduated from the Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University. In 1990, he was appointed as Research Assistant to the Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Akdeniz University.  He completed his master's thesis in Ankara University In 1992 and his Ph.D. thesis in Mediterranean University in 1997. On February 9, 1998, he was appointed as 'Assistant Professor' at the Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Süleyman Demirel University. He was 'Associate Professor' on November 1, 2000 and 'Professor' on March 31, 2006 in the same department. He was awarded scholarships by the German Acedemic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding of Justus-Liebig University (Giessen-Germany) in 1998, at the Ornamental Plant Breeding Institute (Ahrensburg-Germany) In 2003, at the Institute of Plant Analysis (Quedlinburg-Germany) in 2007 and at the Cell and Molecular Botany Institute of Bonn University (Bonn-Germany) in 2011. He made the directorate of Uluborlu Selahattin Karasoy Vocational School between 2004 and 2006 and Rose and Rose Products Research and Implementation Center between 2006 and 2011. At present, he is continuing scientific researches on industrial plants especially on oil and energy crops, medicinal and aromatic plants at University of Isparta Applied Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Department of Field Crops in Isparta, Turkey.