Biography

Dr. Şakiroğlu completed his undergraduate education at the Biology Department, Harran University in 2000 and his master's degree in Plant Breeding from Iowa State University (USA) in 2004. He received his PhD from Plant Breeding Genetics and Genomics Institute of the University of Georgia in 2009 (USA). He was a Land Institute Fellow in 2006 and 2007 and a visiting researcher at Cornell University in 2007. Dr. Şakiroğlu did a postdoctoral study at the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies at the University of Georgia (USA) in 2009. He received the "The Glenn and Helen Burton Feeding the Hungry" award in the same year.

Dr. Şakiroğlu started to work as a faculty member in the Biology Department of Kafkas University (Turkey) in September 2009 and visited the Noble Research Institute (USA) for his first sabbatical in 2011. He was invited by the Kazakhstan Ministry of Education to give lectures at the Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University in 2012 and opened two short courses for graduate and undergraduate students.

He founded Bioengineering Department at Kafkas University in 2012 and served as the Head of the Department for three years. He was promoted to associate professor in 2014. Dr. Şakiroğlu had a second sabbatical at the University of California-Davis in 2015-2016. He was an honorary scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018-2019. He has been working at Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University, Bioengineering Department since 2020. Dr. Şakiroğlu was awarded with the National Leader Researcher Award in 2021.