Dr. Osman Adiguzel earned his BSc in Physics from Ankara University (Turkey) in 1974 and completed his PhD at Dicle University in Diyarbakir. He served as a research assistant at Dicle University from 1975 to 1980, then joined Firat University in 1980. In 1986 to 1987 he worked at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, as a postdoctoral research scientist, focusing on shape memory alloys. He was promoted to full professor in 1996 and retired at age 67 after a 45 year academic career. From 1999 to 2004, Dr. Adiguzel served as Director of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences at Firat University. He supervised 5 PhD dissertations and 3 MSc theses and has served on the technical committees of many conferences. He and his experimental group received recognition from the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) for contributing two patterns to the Powder Diffraction File (Release 2000). His research interests include the shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory and related alloys, molecular dynamics simulations and alloy modeling, and materials characterization using electron microscopy, electron and X ray diffraction, and crystallography.