| Job Title/Company | Professor/YıldızTechnical University, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Qualifications | Civil Engineering (BSc), Transportation Engineering (MSc, PhD) |
| Career | Research and education in planning |
| Why did you choose to work for the rail industry? | I like teaching and performing research on a field that possesses many attractions from my own viewpoint. |
| What inspired you at the time and what influenced your choice? | I just liked the topics covered in a railway engineering course in my undergraduate study and my railway Professors suggested/invited me to study at the graduate level. |
| How does it feel to be in the rail industry? Are your expectations fulfilled? | At earlier times I had been learning, now additionally, I try to contribute to the developments and problem solving voluntarily. |
| What are the challenges? | Priorities of decision makers could sometimes be placed on out of common sense track. |
| What is a talent? Why the rail industry should engage with talents? | Talent is… a natural tendency without enormous external impacts. Like in many other fields, individuals having «problem solving» abilities are candidates of success in the rail industry. |
