Nazimi Açıkgöz graduated from Ankara University in 1964 and earned his Ph D. degree at Munich Technical University in 1972. He then joined Ege University and worked there until his retirement in2009.
His rice breeding studies were supported by CENTO, NATO, IAEA and TUBITAK and at the end, a rice variety “TOAG92" has been registered. His studies on computer use in agriculture were on seed database management system and biostatistics. One of his packages TARIST (Agrostatistics) is still the only Turkish software in this area.
He is one of the founders of the “Seed Center” at Ege University, which has been directed between the years 1998-2004 by him. He was also one of the lead-author of World Bank’s IAASTD report.
