DEAN

Prof. Dr. İsmail Can PAYLAN
Phone : +90 (232) 311 26 01 - +90 (232) 388 18 60
E-mail : ismail.paylan@ege.edu.tr

ABOUT US

Born in Balıkesir, he received his education in English and German in the field of Natural Sciences at Sırrı Yırcalı Anatolian High School (1997). He completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Plant Protection at Ege University Faculty of Agriculture in 2003 and, after working in R&D at Bayer CropScience in 2004, he began his academic career as a "Research Assistant" in the department where he graduated in 2005. He completed part of his postgraduate education at CIHEAM Bari ITALY - Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari and obtained his master's degree in 2007 and his Ph.D. in 2011 at the Ege University Institute of Natural Sciences. In 2013, he was appointed as an "Assistant Professor" and in 2018 as an "Associate Professor".

He has worked as a coordinator and researcher in more than 40 projects supported by various national and international institutions such as the European Union IPA, EU Erasmus Mundus, TUBITAK, TAGEM, and BAP. He is currently leading and coordinating the ongoing TUBITAK 1004 project named "Turkey's Sustainable Agriculture Technologies Platform (S-ATP)" and the AB IPA-II project named "NEETs in the Seed Sector: Seed Training Programme". He has served on the science and organizing committees of various international and national scientific events, attended national and international conferences, supervised master's and doctoral theses, and served as a referee and editor for various national and international scientific journals. He has authored 2 books titled "Plant Viroid Diseases" and "Seed Science and Technology I-II".

He serves as an Expert in the evaluation of international projects at COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). Since 2022, he has been a member of "The International Seed Testing Association-ISTA" based in Zurich, Switzerland, representing Ege University, working in areas such as Paylan, SST, SHC, SSAG. Since 2020, he has been serving as the Head of the Department of Seed Science and Technology at the Ege University Institute of Natural Sciences.

From 2015 to 2018, Paylan served as the "Vice Chairman of the Department of Plant Protection" at Ege University Faculty of Agriculture, and from 2015 to 2018 and from 2019 to 2021, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Ege University Faculty of Agriculture. He has held the position of a member of the Board of Directors of the Ege University Seed Technology Application and Research Center from 2015 to 2018 and from 2019 to 2021. On January 2024, he was appointed as the "Vice Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture" at Ege University, and on January 2021, as the "Director of the Seed Technology Application and Research Center at Ege University", and he continues to hold these positions. He continues his scientific studies in Seed Pathology, Plant Virus Diseases, and Molecular Biology, and he is proficient in English and German.