Esra Bas graduated from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul as a mechanical engineer. She obtained an MBA degree from Yeditepe University, Istanbul. She also studied at TU Berlin Global Production Engineering Master’s program with the scholarship of Turkish Education Foundation (TEV)-German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She obtained her PhD degree from Istanbul Technical University Department of Industrial Engineering. During her PhD study, she has been to Columbia University Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) department as a Fulbright visiting scholar. Her research areas are Probability, Stochastic Processes, Cryptography, Occupational Safety and Health, and Reliability Engineering. She is the author of the books “Basics of Probability and Stochastic Processes”, and “Einführung in Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, Statistik und Stochastische Prozesse”.