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E.K. Zavadskas received the PhD degree in building structures from the Vilnius Institute of Civil Engineering, Lithuania, in 1973, the DSc degree in building technology and management from the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering, Soviet Union, in 1987. He is currently the prof. chief researcher at the Institute of Sustainable Construction, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania. He is the founder of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in 1990. He is the author and coauthor of more than 600 papers and a number of monographs in Lithuanian, English, German, and Russian. His research interests include multicriteria decision-making, civil engineering, sustainable development, and fuzzy multicriteria decision making. Dr. K. Zavadskas is a member of the Lithuanian Academy of Science; a member of several foreign Academies of Sciences; the Honorary doctor from Poznan, Saint-Petersburg, and Kyiv universities, a member of international organizations; a member of steering and programme committees at many international conferences; the Chairman of EURO Working Group ORSDCE; an associate editor, guest editor, or editorial board member for 40 international journals including Computers-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Automation in Construction, Informatica, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Symmetry, Sustainability, Applied Intelligence, Energy, Entropy, and others; the founding editor of Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, International Journal of Strategic Property Management. He has been a highly cited researcher in 2014, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
H. Dinçer is professor of finance at Istanbul Medipol University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Istanbul-Turkey. Dr. Dincer has BAs in financial markets and investment management from Marmara University. He received his PhD in finance and banking with his thesis entitled ‘The Effect of Changes on the Competitive Strategies of New Service Development in the Banking Sector”. He has work experience in the finance industry as a portfolio specialist and his major academic studies focusing on financial instruments, performance evaluation, and economics. He is the executive editor of the International Journal of Finance and Banking Studies (IJFBS) and the founder member of the Society for the Study of Business and Finance (SSBF). He has about 500 scientific articles and some of them are indexed in SSCI, SCI-Expended and Scopus. In addition to them, he is also an editor of many different books published by Springer and IGI Global.
S. Yüksel is a professor of finance in İstanbul Medipol University. Before this position, he worked as a senior internal auditor for seven years in Finansbank, Istanbul-Turkey and 1 year in Konya Food and Agriculture University as an assistant professor. Dr. Yüksel has a BS in business administration (in English) from Yeditepe University (2006) with full scholarship. He got his master degree from the economics in Boğaziçi University (2008). He also has a PhD in banking from Marmara University (2015). His research interests lie in energy economics, banking, finance and financial crisis. He has more than 500 scientific articles and some of them are indexed in SSCI, SCI, Scopus and Econlit. Also, he is the editor of some books that will be published by Springer and IGI Global.