Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kaya completed his doctorate in “Medical Physiology” at Istanbul University Health Sciences Institute in 1989. Professor Kaya received the title of “Associate Professor” in 1991 and “Professor” in 1998. Professor Kaya, who has been conducting research on the morphology, physiology, and pathology of barrier-type cerebral blood vessels in experimental animal models of diseases such as epilepsy, hypertensive encephalopathy, septic encephalopathy, and traumatic brain injury since 1985, has recently been working on barrier-type blood vessels in addition to his in vivo studies. It also examines the behavior of endothelial cells in vitro.

Sacit Karamürsel was born in Amasya in 1962. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1977 and Ankara Science High School in 1980. He was TÜBİTAK Türkiye’s “Inter-High School Physics Competition” Türkiye’s individual winner. He graduated from Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1986. He received his physiology specialization in 1988, his associate professorship in 1992, and his professorship in 1999. He worked as a researcher at the University of California, San Diego between 1990-1996. He took part in many joint studies with European Countries. He was a founding member of IU.Electro-Neuro-Physiology Research and Application Center, Atherosclerosis Association, Medical Communication and Research Association, Brain Research Association, and served as chairman and director at various times. He was a member of COST-BMBS Domain Committee for two terms (8 years). After serving as the head of the Physiology Department of the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine for more than 11 years, he became the Dean of the Istinye University Faculty of Medicine, the heads of the Physiology and Neuroscience Departments, and the director of the Neurological Sciences Research and Application Center. He has been working as a faculty member at Koç University School of Medicine since 2019.

Prof. Dr. Özlem Yalçın completed her doctorate in “Medical Physiology” at Akdeniz University Health Sciences Institute in 2007, receiving the title of “Associate Professor” in 2014 and “Professor” in 2020. The main focus areas of Dr. Yalçın and her team are; application of deep learning techniques in hematological diagnosis, development of microfluidic-based tests that rapidly assess hemostatic function, fluid mechanics in the vasculature, mechanisms for local regulation of blood flow in tissues, and remote killing of electrically excitable cancer cells by photo-active polymers.

Ezgi Tuna Erdoğan, after graduating from Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 2006, completed her residency training in the Department of Physiology in the same faculty with her thesis on intraoperative neuromonitoring. She completed his compulsory service at Adana Numune Training and Research Hospital and was an observer for one month in the Intraoperative Neurophysiology Unit of the Neurosurgery Clinic of Verona University. During his residency training and compulsory service, she continued her studies at the Matter and Mind Interactions Laboratory (makelab) with Prof. Sacit Karamürsel and Adnan Kurt. She studied electrophysiological recording, evoked potentials, intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and neurofeedback. After the compulsory service, she continued her academic life at Bilim University as an assistant professor and worked at the Spina Bifida Center. Between 2016-2019, she joined Istinye University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology, and continued his studies at the Neurological Sciences Research and Application Center (Isucan). As of 2020, she continues her studies as a faculty member at Koç University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology. Her main areas of interest are non-invasive neuromodulation techniques, electrophysiological recordings, and stimulation techniques and to use of these methods in surgeries for neuromonitoring, in neurological diseases with the aim of treatment and performance research in healthy people.

Aytaç Güzel graduated from Ege University Biology Department in 2019. In 2021, he completed his master's degree at Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology. Since 2022, he has been continuing his doctoral studies at Koç University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology, and has been working as a teaching and research assistant at the same time. He continues his studies in the areas of neurophysiology and epilepsy.

Murat Aydemir, MD completed his primary and high school education in Çorum. In 2020, after graduating from Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Medicine, he worked in emergency service as a physician and in the intensive care unit as the physician in charge at Çorum Erol Olçok Training and Research Hospital. As of 2022, he started his medical specialty education in the Department of Physiology at Koç University School of Medicine. His professional interests include electrophysiology, clinical neurophysiology, and pathophysiologic basis of diseases.

Can Koğ, received his undergraduate degree from Bahçeşehir University, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation program, in 2017, then received his master's degree from Erciyes University, Department of Physiology, Exercise Physiology programme in 2021. Professional and research interests include clinical exercise physiology, myokines, and HIIT.