Associate Professor Dr. Seyit Ali Kamanli obtained his BSc degree in biology from Eskişehir Osmangazi University between 2005 and 2009. He then completed his MSc degree in Marine Environmental Management at the University of York in 2012 with a scholarship awarded by the Ministry of National Education of Türkiye. As part of his Master’s at the University of York, he worked as an intern at the Faculty of Fisheries, Ege University, Türkiye, for two months in 2012. He then pursued his Ph.D. studies in the department of biology at the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) and the department of life science at the Natural History Museum, London (NHM) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. David Morritt, Dr. Paul Clark, and Dr. Alex Ball, using the same scholarship, from 2013 to 2018.
He was awarded two prizes during his Ph.D. at RHUL and NHM: “The winner of the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) Beginners Competition (December 2015, The NHM, London, UK)” and “The winner of the NHM Sci-Art competition at the NHM (March 2017, London, UK) and was presented with two awards, one by the judges and the other from delegates for the best scientific image during the 11th NHM Postgraduate Student Conference (2017)”. Following the submission of his Ph.D. thesis to RHUL and NHM in September 2017, his post-doctoral studies under the supervision of Dr. Paul Clark were financially supported by the Departmental Funds of the Department of Life Sciences, NHM, for a period of five months, from September 2017 to February 2018. After completing his Ph.D. and post-doctoral studies in the United Kingdom, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kamanli started to work as an assistant professor at the Department of Biology, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Türkiye, in July, 2018. He was granted the title of Associate Professor in 2024. Since 2018, he has collaborated with Prof. Dr. Argun Akif Özak in Türkiye. His research interests include Crustaceans, Decapoda, Copepoda, Parasites, Bio-imaging, SEM, CLSM, Micro-CT, Nano-CT, and 3D imaging.