Prof. Dr. Burcu Özsoy, as the Chief Editor, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan Hakan Yavaşoğlu, and Lecturer Yaşar Barbaros Büyüksağnak, as the Coordinators, 65 Turkish scientists, including ITU faculty members, prepared 565 articles within 3 volumes of the encyclopedia under Physical Sciences, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, and Social and Human Sciences https://ansiklopedi.tubitak.gov.tr/kutup/..

Our Chemical Engineering faculty member, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elif Genceli Güner, contributed to this valuable encyclopedia as the Physical Sciences subject editor and the author of many articles.

We congratulate our academic staff and the entire publishing team for this valuable reference resource that will be bequeathed to future generations, and express our sincere wishes for their further achievements and success.