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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.

Dr. Muslu received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Muğla University in 2001, an M.Sc. in Management and Labor Psychology from Marmara University in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Maritime Business Administration from Istanbul University in 2015. Before his academic career, he gained experience in the private sector as a ship operations manager and yacht manager.

With over nine years in academia, Dr. Muslu has focused his research on Marine Tourism Management, Maritime Management, Labor Relations, Quality Management, Human Resources Management, and other interdisciplinary perspectives. He has published over 60 papers in relevant journals and conferences.

Dr. Muslu is an Associate Professor of Maritime Business Management and Organization in the Faculty of Political Sciences at Samsun University and a visiting researcher at Southern Cross University.

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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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Resul Telli is a scholar specializing in international economics, with research focusing on regional development, digital transformation, and sustainability. In addition, through his role at the Higher Education Quality Council of Turkey (YÖKAK), he has developed expertise in quality assurance, institutional accreditation, and external evaluation processes in higher education, actively contributing to institutional quality enhancement practices. His work adopts an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates international economics with quality culture and institutional capacity building in higher education systems.

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.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ömer Faruk Görçün specializes in Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), advanced fuzzy set theory, sustainability assessment, and digital transformation strategies. His research focuses on the development of quantitative decision-support systems and the analytical modeling of complex industrial decision problems.

His academic interests include logistics and supply chain management, sustainable transportation systems, energy system evaluation, port and maritime transportation analysis, smart warehouse automation systems, and industrial technology selection. He integrates advanced fuzzy modeling approaches—such as q-Rung orthopair fuzzy sets, Fermatean fuzzy sets, interval-valued fuzzy environments, and Archimedean-based aggregation operators—into structured decision-making frameworks under uncertainty.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Görçün contributes to the literature not only through the application of established methodologies but also by proposing novel weighting and ranking approaches within the MCDM domain. The integrated and hybrid models he develops have been applied to strategic decision contexts, including sustainable energy system selection, autonomous vehicle evaluation, underground hydrogen storage assessment, port sustainability performance measurement, and prioritization of digital transformation strategies.

He has authored numerous publications in internationally peer-reviewed journals and continues to conduct interdisciplinary research that combines methodological innovation, mathematical rigor, and application-oriented analysis.