Nazire Yilmaz obtained her PhD degree in Textile Technology Management program from North Carolina State University (NCSU), USA where she has also worked as a teaching assistant. Currently, she is an associate professor in the Textile Engineering Department at U¿ak University in Turkey. She has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, 13 book chapters, and eight conference papers, and holds a patent. She is the editor of Smart Textiles: Wearable Nanotechnology (Wiley-Scrivener, 2018).