Assoc. Prof. ARZU YAZGI

Biography

Arzu YAZGI was born in 1978 in İzmir. She graduated from Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Macninery in 2000. She started to master  of science education in 2001 and then started to work as a Research Asisstant. She completed her MSc thesis with the title of "Optimization of the Performance of a Vacuum Type  Precision Seeder Using Response Surface Methodology" and started to doctoral education at Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Macninery in the same year. She completed her PhD thesis with the title of "Optimization of the Precision Seeding and Mathematical Modeling of the Machine Performance" and got her doctorate degree in 2010. She joined practical trainings in Germany in 2005 (FAL-Braunschweig) for two months, and 2010 (Bonn University) for two months. She won the first prize for two times at the student congresses organized in Poland (2008) and Slovakia (2010). She awarded "TÜBİTAK 2219 Post Doctoral Research Grant" for six months in 2014. During this period, she had been at Oklahoma State University as a "Visiting Scholar" and joined lots of laboratory and field experiments and also studies with the other reserchers. She got her "Associate Professor" title on 19^th April, 2018. Her areas of interest are Seeding, Drilling and Fertilizing Machines, Optimization and Mathematical Modelling and Pressurized Irrigation Systems. Arzu YAZGI has been still working for Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Engineering and Technology and she fluently speaks English.