Baki Hazer graduated from the University of İstanbul with a major in Chemical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey, in 1978, and his M.S. and B.S. degrees in chemical engineering from the College of Chemical Engineering, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1972. He was a Visiting Scientist for TÜBİTAK-NSF at The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA. He had an honorary membership by the Turkish Chemical Society in May 2005. He received the NATO Collaborative Research Grant at the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass, USA, in 1995-1997, and was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the same department in 1992-1993. Hazer also received a postdoctoral fellowship by TÜBİTAK-Royal Society of Chemistry, UK at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. He is Member of the Editorial Boards of Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry, Clinical Rehabilitative Tissue Engineering Research (CRTER), ISRN Polymer Science and Dataset Papers in Chemistry. He is specialized in nanocomposites, polymers from renewable sources, bacterial polyesters, block and graft copolymers, macromonomeric initiators. 12 Sept 2013.