Research Assistant Dr. Alper YANAR completed his undergraduate education at the Faculty of Fisheries at Çukurova University between 2005 and 2009. In 2010, he began his master’s degree in Fish Diseases at Çukurova University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Argun A. Özak.
Between 2011 and 2012, he served as the National Observer for Bluefin Tuna at ICCAT (The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas). He conducted studies on parasitic copepods of tuna fish. From 2012 to 2015, he worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Marine Sciences at the Faculty of Marine Sciences and Technology at Mustafa Kemal University.
In 2016, completed his master’s thesis titled “Effects of Ascorbic Acid on Lead Accumulation in Some Tissues of Hybrid Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus X Oreochromis aureus) and Determination of its Histopathology” at the Department of Fisheries at İskenderun Technical University.
In 2023, he completed his doctoral thesis titled “Microplastic Quantity and Bisphenol-A Accumulation in Grey Mullet (Mugil cephalus) and Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) Caught from İskenderun and Mersin Bays” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ayşe Bahar Yılmaz at the Department of Fisheries at İskenderun Technical University. Since 2010, Dr. Alper YANAR has continued his work in parasitic copepoda and marine pollution, he is currently focusing particularly on environmental parasitology. He has been serving as a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Marine Sciences and Technology at İskenderun Technical University since 2015.