And Akman continues his academic and architectural works on building biology and ecology since 1990. He started his professional education in 1981 at Mimar Sinan University, then carried on in New York University and Institut für Baubiologie + Ökologie. He realized worldwide ecological architecture projects and building applications in the Office of Lichtblick Architecture for 17 years, then he returned to Turkey in 2007 and become a founding partner of eds-a architecture where he continued his international architecture projects and applications in between 2008-2019. He also consulted as one of the specialists to the UN project the years 2012-2014: 'Promoting Energy Efficiency in Buildings in Turkey'. He spearheaded the start of modern earthen architecture project class in Selçuk University in 2014 and continued his lectures there for 2,5 years. He initiated Building Biology elective class, and gave lectures on this subject at MEF University in between 2016-2017, for two semesters. Since 2017, he continues his lectures in sustainable architecture studio at İzmir Economy University. He is doing various trainings and workshops on ecological materials and construction methodologies and participates as guest speaker in several conferences in this field. His articles and papers on building biology and ecology have been issued in national and international publications. Meanwhile, relying on his long standing relationships with IBN, he co-founded Building Biology and Ecology Institute Turkey- YBE in 2015. Since then, as the director of YBE, he is actively carrying out his responsibilities.

Studied architecture in Rome and Venice. He is the founding member and honorary president of Italian Building Biology Association – ANAB. He continues his pioneering works for the dissemination of nature conscious, human centered and sustainable architecture for 30 years. Besides European Union countries, he gave seminars, made workshops and presentations in conferences in various countries such as Russia, Brazil, Cuba. He took charges in Building Biology Science and Assessment Committees.

Studied architecture at Waseda University in Tokyo, assisted Prof. Agematsu at the Tokai University in between 1987-1997. Being DAAD scholarship holder at the TU Munich in between 1991-93, he was promoted in Waseda University, Tokyo in 1995. Since 1997 he is lecturer at the Maebashi Institute of Technology where he became professor in 2001. Since 2004 he also run the Architectural office; Bio-House-Japan. In 2005 he founded the Building Biology Institute of Japan (BIJ), and became building biology expert after completing IBN BBC course in 2011.

His literary work: “Rammed clay as the earth building of the future” 2017, “Style synthesis, the theory of architecture in the German 19th century.” 2017

His translations to Japanes language;
Form-Drawing by Rudolf Kutzli (1997-98), Pathways to Healthy Building (Holger König, 2000), 25 basic principles of building biology (Anton Schneider 2003), Building biology in practice in Japan (2006)
Editor, magazine “Building Biology” (BIJ) since 2005, no.1~56

His architectural works;
Arai Children's Hospital, Takasaki (2001),
Yawata Kindergarten, Takasaki (2010)

After graduating from Ege University Faculty of Medicine in İzmir (1989), Dr. Sakarya has completed her specialist training on Public Health at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. She has got her Public Health master degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1998 and her master degree in Medical Education from the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 2006.
She worked in Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health between 1996 and 2018. Since 2018 she has been working at Koç University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health. Her major areas of interest include epidemiology and management of chronic diseases, health promotion and migraton health.
Since 2011 she is a member of the National Medical Education Accreditation Board (UTEAK). She has been Chief Editor of Turkish Journal of Public Health since 2009.

Thomas Abel is Professor for Health Research at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern, Switzerland ( http://www.ispm.unibe.ch/ ). A Medical Sociologist with a focus on structure-agency perspectives, his major research program addresses issues of social stratification and inequalities in health and health behaviours.

Prior to his appointment in Bern he was Professor for Public Health and Epidemiology, Dep. of Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximillians-University, Munich, FRG (1993 - 95), Lecturer and Research Assistant in Medical Sociology, Dep. of Medicine at the Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany (1986 - 93) and Teaching and Research Assistant, Dep. of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (1984 – 86). His academic degrees include a Habilitation at Philipps-University in Marburg (Dep. of Medicine, 1993), a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois (Dep. of Sociology) in 1989, a Master’s (1980) and a Dr.phil. (1984) degree from the Justus Liebig-University in Giessen (Dep. of Sports Science). He has been a visiting Professor at Univ. de Montreal in 2005 (Dép. de médicine sociale et préventive) and at UBC Vancouver in 2012 (Dep. of Sociology) and visiting researcher at Stanford University in 2019.

Thomas Abel has published widely on theoretical and empirical challenges in social science applied in Public Health http://www.ispm.unibe.ch/about_us/staff/abel_thomas/index_eng.html#pane129400
As Editor-in-Chief he has led the International Journal of Public Health from 2000 until 2011. He has also served as reviewer and advisor for major national and international research institutions and funding agencies.

Medical Doctor, Academician, Director for Novartis and Vice President in GE, Professional Coach, Consultant

Uğur Özkutlu has been completed his training in Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Marmara University Medical School and University of Iowa Medical School respectively. He has significant amount of scientific papers published in International Journals from his years of academic research. He has occupied executive manager positions in and out of Turkey in Pharma and Medical Tech. Companies. He has worked basically in Research & Development besides he took active role in product communication third party stake holders mainly governmental bodies.

Starting from last year he is providing training, coaching and consultancy for private companies and governmental bodies.