Nalan KABAY is a Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ege University, Türkiye. She graduated from Ege University in 1983 and received her PhD from Kumamoto University, Japan in 1992 through a Monbusho Scholarship. She worked as a post-doc at National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, Japan between 1998 and 1999 by a grant of Science and Technology Agency (STA), Japan. She visited Loughborough University and Imperial College-London, UK through the grants of the Royal Society, EPSRC and British Council between 1996 and 2008. Professor Kabay has more than 150 SCI papers, several book chapters and has acted as guest editor of several special issues of international journals such as Reactive and Functional Polymers, Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange, Desalination, Water Research, Journal of Membrane Science and Research etc. She is the co-editor of three research books. She is a member of editorial boards for 5 international journals and an honorary member of Japan Ion Exchange Society. Professor Kabay was involved in many international and national research projects and was invited to give lectures and conferences at leading universities of different countries. She has collaborated with many distinguished scientists from various countries and worked for the organizations of several international conferences and workshops. She has received the TUBITAK-Science Promotion Award in engineering field (2001), Canon Foundation in Europe Award (2001), Ion Exchange Award of Society of Chemical Industry-UK (2012) and Kumamoto University (Japan) Alumni Award (2015). So far, she supervised around 70 post graduate students for their PhD and MS theses. Her main interests are membrane separation processes, ion exchange, functional polymeric materials, inorganic adsorbents, separation and recovery of boron and lithium, desalination, wastewater reclamation and reuse, salinity gradient energy production by reverse electrodialysis (RED).