Doruk Görkem Özkan received his BSc in Landscape Architecture from Karadeniz Technical University (KTU) in 2008. Also he received his MA (Post occupancy evaluation in urban open spaces: a case study of Trabzon coast line) and Ph.D. (The effects of campus open space environmental attributes on place attachment: the case study of KTU Kanuni Campus) in Landscape Architecture from Karadeniz Technical University in 2012 and 2017, respectively. Currently, he is a Associative Professor of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Planning and Design the Karadeniz Technical University and his research interests include landscape design, environmental psychology, place attachment, pro-environmental behaviour. He is a member of KTU Environmental Problems Research and Application Center, Natural structures and landscape working group.