Korkmaz Belliturk graduated from Trakya University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science in 1996 as top student of the department. In the same year, he started M.S. in institute of natural and applied sciences in Trakya University and worked as research assistant in Trakya University, Department of Soil Science. He worked as research assistant in the same department between 1996 and 2007. He is working as Assistant Professor in Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition since 2007. And then, he was assigned to lecture for one week each within the context of Erasmus teaching staff mobility at Trakia Democritus University in Greece in 2011 and at University of Technology and Life Sciences in Poland in 2013. He was assigned for 3 months between July 11 and September 11 at “the University of Vermont” in Vermont-USA to take a part in a project called Use of soil earthworms in agriculture. He served as project head and researcher in 15 projects supported by Tubitak, Trakya University, Namik Kemal University, Bilecik Seyh Edebali University and Bozok University Scientific Research Projects Units. He is having 70 articles on soil science, soil ecology, plant nutrition, soil fertility, soil chemistry, soil-water pollution, ecologic agriculture, soil earthworms and fertilization topics as research articles and papers presented in domestic and abroad scientific meetings. Also, 5 of them are the articles published in international periodicals cited by international science indexes (SCI-E). He won 12 months research scholarship at “The University of Vermont” in Vermont-USA for the second term of 2013 in the context of Tubitak 2219 International Postdoctoral Research Scholarship Program.

Soil Chemistry; Soil Productivity; Plant Nutrition; Soil and Water Pollution; Fertilization; Soil Ecology; Compost and Vermicompost.