Prof. Dr. Bahri Sahin received his undergraduate degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Gazi University in 1977, his graduate education from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yıldız Technical University's (YTU) Institute of Science and Technology in 1979 with a TÜBİTAK scholarship, and completed his Ph.D. in the Nuclear Energy Institute Nuclear Technology Program at Istanbul Technical University ITU) in 1985 wıth a TÜBİTAK Honorary Scholarship.



He worked as a research assistant between 1979 and 1983 and as a lecturer between 1983 and 1986 in the Department of Energy Engineering at ITU's Mechanical Engineering Department and served as Assistant Professor in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering between 1986 and 1989 and as an Associate Professor between 1989 and 1995. He has been a Professor since 1995.



Prof. Dr. Bahri Sahin served as Deputy Head of his Department between 1988 and 1999 at Yildiz Technical University, Division Head between 1992 and 2007, Head of the Department between 1999 and 2009, and Founding Dean of Faculty of YTU Naval Architecture and Maritime Department since 2009. He was also elected to the Board of Directors of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's (UNIDO) International Center for Hydrogen Technology (ICHET) in 2010.



Prof. Dr. Bahri Sahin has conducted many international studies in the fields of thermodynamics, energy production systems, energy technologies, design and optimization of thermal systems, and energy economy. He was elected to the Turkish Academy of Science (TÜBA) as a principal member by the Scientific Board of TUBİTAK through Decision No. 212 on October 6, 2012. Prof. Dr. Bahri Sahin also served as the rector of Yildiz Technical University from 2016 to 2020 and is the current Rector of Istanbul Gelişim University.

Bülent Eşiyok 2021 yılında İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Ekonomi ve Finans Bölümü'nde doçent olarak başladığı görevine 2023 yılından itibaren profesör olarak devam etmektedir. Yüksek lisansını Uluslararası İşletme alanında İngiltere'de Oxford Brookes Üniversitesi'nde yapmıştır. Doktora Eğitimini İngiltere'de Greenwich Üniversitesi'nde Uluslararası İktisat alanında tamamlamıştır. Bülent Eşiyok'un doğrudan yabancı yatırımlar, uluslararası ticaret, sağlık turizmi alanında birçok yayınlanmış makalesi bulunmaktadır. İlgi alanları coğrafi olarak Afrika, Çin ve Vietnam'dır. 

Onur Özdemir completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Economics at Işık University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Kadir Has University. During his graduate studies, he spent two years in Sweden as a researcher. After earning his Ph.D. in 2017, he continued his academic career at Istanbul Gelişim University, where he currently holds the title of Associate Professor. Between 2009 and 2011, he worked as a student assistant in the Department of Economics at Işık University while pursuing his undergraduate studies. During his master’s (2011–2013) and doctoral (2013–2017) education, he served as a research assistant in the Department of Economics at Kadir Has University. During this period, he participated as a researcher in three different TÜBİTAK-funded projects. From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Özdemir served as the Director of the Center for Economic Policy Application and Research at Istanbul Gelişim University. He also served as the Head of the Department of International Trade and Finance between 2017 and 2019 and has continued to hold the same position since 2022. His research interests include income distribution, inequality, heterodox economics, financialization, monetary economics, and macroeconomics. He has published numerous articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals, as well as several book chapters. Dr. Özdemir has been serving as an Associate Editor of the Istanbul Gelisim University Journal of Social Sciences since 2017 and has been the Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Economics and Management Studies since 2022.

Dr. Festus Victor Bekun currently serves as an Associate professor at Istanbul Gelisim University Turkey Istanbul Turkey, and he is also a senior adjunct research fellow at Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC) and VIZJA University Warsaw Poland. Dr. Bekun has over 347+ refereed scientific publications indexed in WOS and Scopus index top-tier outlet. Dr. Bekun Hi-index over span 77, 68 and 69 in Googlesholar Scopus and WOS index respectively. Dr. Bekun is also listed among global influential scientist as outlined by the Stanford university among global 2% influential scientists since 2021 till date edition available at August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" - Elsevier BV (digitalcommonsdata.com) and also more recently the 2022 just published list available at September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" - Elsevier BV (digitalcommonsdata.com). Dr is also recently listed as highly cited research (HCR) by WOS available at Highly Cited Researchers - Clarivate. Dr. Bekun research interest is in the areas of agricultural economics, energy economics, sustainability, and carbon reduction policies. Dr. works have appeared in top-tier journals including Science of The Total Environment, Energy & Environment, Journal of cleaner production, Energy & Environment, Sustainable development more recently Current Issues in Tourism, Heliyon and the prestigious renewable and sustainable energy review (RSER) Journal, among others. The author is currently serving as an associate editor to several WOS and SCOPUS index journals namely: Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, Editor-Open Agriculture, Editor- Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Guest Editor-Sustainability, Associate Editor- Journal of Public Affairs among others
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Onur Özdemir completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Economics at Işık University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Kadir Has University. During his graduate studies, he spent two years in Sweden as a researcher. After earning his Ph.D. in 2017, he continued his academic career at Istanbul Gelişim University, where he currently holds the title of Associate Professor. Between 2009 and 2011, he worked as a student assistant in the Department of Economics at Işık University while pursuing his undergraduate studies. During his master’s (2011–2013) and doctoral (2013–2017) education, he served as a research assistant in the Department of Economics at Kadir Has University. During this period, he participated as a researcher in three different TÜBİTAK-funded projects. From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Özdemir served as the Director of the Center for Economic Policy Application and Research at Istanbul Gelişim University. He also served as the Head of the Department of International Trade and Finance between 2017 and 2019 and has continued to hold the same position since 2022. His research interests include income distribution, inequality, heterodox economics, financialization, monetary economics, and macroeconomics. He has published numerous articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals, as well as several book chapters. Dr. Özdemir has been serving as an Associate Editor of the Istanbul Gelisim University Journal of Social Sciences since 2017 and has been the Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Economics and Management Studies since 2022.

I work as the Head of the Library and Documentation Department at Istanbul Gelisim University. I am responsible for all aspects of the library's operation and its relationships with university units, institutions, and publishers. I also work at Istanbul Gelisim University Publications, which publishes numerous academic journals and books each year.

My academic research areas include Knowledge and Documentation Management, Open Access, Open Science, Archival Studies, Marketing in Libraries, and Customer Relationship Management.

Aslıhan Ünal completed her undergraduate studies in Econometrics at Istanbul University and received her master’s and doctoral degrees in Business Administration from Düzce University. She is currently working as a faculty member in the Department of Business Administration at Istanbul Gelisim University. Her academic interests include leadership, artificial intelligence in business, digital transformation, digital business, and strategic management. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in business management and artificial intelligence in business.

Ayşe Meriç Yazıcı holds a master's degree in business administration and a Ph.D. She was a post-doctoral researcher at Lund University, Sweden. She is also a visiting researcher at Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Washington D.C., USA. She is currently an assistant professor at Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey. In addition, she is editor-in-chief of the Scientific Journal of Space Management and Space Economy and editor-in-chief of Studia Humana.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Başak Özarslan Doğan is a faculty member at Gelişim University. Her research focuses on energy economics, macroeconomics, and development economics. She has published various academic studies in these fields and has concentrated particularly on issues related to energy and development policies within the broader context of contemporary economic challenges.

Gümüş studied Public Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University under the chairmanship of Betül Mardin on a full scholarship. She completed her master's degree at Istanbul University in the Public Relations programme, writing her master's thesis on “Public Relations and the Panopticon”. He completed his doctorate at Istanbul Commerce University in the Public Relations and Advertising programme, writing his thesis entitled “The Role of Creative Cultural Industries in Nation Branding in the Context of Digital Diplomacy: The Case of Netflix Turkey”. The concepts of “Digital Cultural Diplomacy” and “Netflix Diplomacy” were introduced to the literature within the framework of his doctoral thesis. In this context, he was invited by Prof. Dr. Rhonda Zaharna to participate in the panel titled “Emerging Researchers in Public Diplomacy” at the 72nd ICA-Post Conferences: Emerging Researchers in Public Diplomacy, organised by the International Communication Association at the Paris INALCO Institute in May 2022.

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Dr. Merve Boyacı Yıldırım, halkla ilişkiler alanında uzmanlaşmış bir akademisyendir. Lisans, yüksek lisans ve doktora eğitimini halkla ilişkiler alanında tamamlamıştır. Akademik çalışmalarında özellikle dijital medya, dezenformasyon, sürdürülebilir iletişim, stratejik halkla ilişkiler ve göç iletişimi konularına odaklanmaktadır. Ulusal ve uluslararası hakemli dergilerde yayımlanmış çeşitli makaleleri bulunan Dr. Yıldırım, aynı zamanda sosyal medya analitiği ve hesaplamalı sosyal bilimler yöntemlerini araştırmalarında etkin biçimde kullanmaktadır. Halen İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesinde öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmakta, yüksek lisans ve lisans düzeyinde dersler vermektedir.

2009 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümü’nden mezun oldum. Aynı yıl içerisinde İstanbul Üniversitesi Deneysel Tıp Araştırma Enstitüsü (DETAE) Sinirbilim (Neuroscience) Yüksek Lisans programına başladım. Prof.Dr. Betül BAYKAN danışmanlığında “Migrenlilerde Yüz Tanıma Fonksiyonları ve Obsesif-Kompulsif Bulguların Araştırılması” konulu  yüksek lisans tez çalışmasını tamamlayarak 2012 yılında mezun oldum. Doktora derecemi 2023 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Deneysel Tıp Araştırma Enstitüsü İleri Nörolojik Bilimler Doktora Programından almış bulunmaktayım.

Akademik eğitimi dışında 2012 yılında Prof.Dr. Perin Yolaç’ın düzenlediği 74 saatlik Bilişsel Davranışçı Terapi eğitimini, 2013 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Sürekli Eğitim Merkezi’nin düzenlediği 450 saatlik Aile Danışmanlığı eğitimini ve süpervizyon sürecini tamamladım. 2019 yılında Prof. Dr. Mehmet Sungur dan 74 saatlik BDT yönelimli Çift ve Cinsel Terapi eğitimi aldım. Katıldığım diğer sertifika eğitimleri ise Terapötik Kartlar ve Denver II Gelişimsel Tarama Testi uygulayıcı eğitimidir.

Meslek yaşamımın ilk yılında çeşitli özel eğitim kurumlarında okul öncesi çocukları, engelli çocuklar ve aileleri ile çalıştım. 2011-2024 yılları arasında ise İstanbul Emniyet Müdürlüğü’nde Psikolog olarak görev yaptım. 2024- Şubat' tan beri de İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümünde Dr. Öğr. Üyesi olarak çalışmaktayım. Aynı zamanda üniversite bünyesindeki Beyin, davranış ve biliş laboratuvarı sorumlusuyum

Asst. Prof. Dr. Süreyya İMRE BIYIKLI is an academic specializing in econometrics and time series analysis. She completed her undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies in econometrics. Her academic research primarily focuses on econometrics, time series analysis, panel data methods, and machine learning algorithms. She has published several articles and conference papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals. Currently, she teaches courses in econometrics and data science, and in her research, she integrates both traditional econometric methods and contemporary data science approaches.

Melih Yıldız is a Research Assistant in the Department of Business Administration at Istanbul Gelişim University, where he has been working since 2020. He received his bachelor’s degree from Kocaeli University and his master’s degree from Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University. He is currently continuing his PhD education in the Production Management and Marketing program at the Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul University. His research interests include sustainability, consumer behavior and psychology.

Cansu Türker is a Research Assistant at the Department of Business Administration, Istanbul Gelişim University (2016–present).. She holds her bachelor’s degree from Istanbul University School of Business and her master’s degree in Marketing from the same institution, and is currently a PhD candidate in Marketing at Istanbul University. Her research focuses on marketing research, consumer behavior, human–AI interaction, digital transformation, and technology-driven marketing practices.