I am a full professor at Akdeniz University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. I have been working on regional planning and urban and regional development in tourism cities. I have specifically been working on economic geography and the development of (tourism) cities since my PhD, and in most of my research papers I focus on the role of innovation, governance, value chains, g(local) networks, clusters, human capital, (un)related variety, economic diversification, resilience, firm survival and fictional expectations of tourism entrepreneurs in tourism cities which are novel areas in tourism and economic geography literature.
Nowadays, I am working on economic resilience in crisis cities and factors defining firm survival strategies in crisis. This project was funded and awarded by The Science Academy (https://en.bilimakademisi.org/the-science-academy-why/) in Turkey as the first project awarded in the field of urban and regional science. I was also awarded as a Outstanding Young Scientist Award given by Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). With the support of TÜBA, I worked on future fictional expectations of (tourism) cities experiencing both economic, natural and political crisis. Nowadays, I am working on future fiction for cities.