Dr. Atayik is currently working in the Department of General Surgery at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. He has been working as a scientist and researcher with Prof. Ufuk Çakatay since 2017. His research interests are in the fields of aging, age-related disorders, redox biology, oncogenetics, melatonin, mitochondria, surgical advances, and developing novel techniques for modern surgery. Dr. Atayik has conducted clinical research and experimental studies. He has published many scientific papers, such as research papers, narrative reviews, and book chapters, and has worked as an author, referee, editorial assistant, and guest editor, and editor in many prominent publishing houses. He was awarded the Young Investigator Presentation Prize at the VIII. International Congress of Molecular Medicine, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2021.