The faculty member of our Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Duygu AĞAOĞULLARI and Prof. Dr. Parvin MAMMADOVA (under the direction of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) and in partnership with SOCAR Energy Trade Inc.) will be conducting a project titled "Cleaning of Sea Water and Soil Contaminated with Petroleum Wastes Using Microorganism-Loaded Core/Shell Type Magnetic Nanoparticles through Nanotechnology Enhanced Bioremediation." It has been decided to support this project within the framework of the 2542 TUBITAK-ANAS Joint Project Call. In the project, which will be conducted as an interdisciplinary study, faculty members from our University's Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Department of Environmental Engineering, along with researchers from our Faculty, Prof. Dr. M. Lütfi Öveçoğlu, Research Asistant Dr. Sıddıka Mertdinç Ülküseven and Research Assistant İlayda Süzer will participate.

We congratulate our faculty members and wish them ongoing success.