Dr. Cihan Bayrakdar received his Bachelor's degree from Istanbul University, Department of Geography in 2002, his Master's degree from Istanbul University, Physical Geography in 2006 on ‘Applied Geomorphology’ and his PhD degree from Istanbul University, Physical Geography in 2012 on ‘Glacial Geomorphology’. Bayrakdar also completed his post-doctorate on ‘Cosmogenic Dating’ at the Geological Institute of Bern University in Switzerland in 2014. Dr Bayrakdar became a Research Assistant at Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Geography, Department of Physical Geography in 2005, Assistant Professor in 2014, Associate Professor of Physical Geography in 2019 and has been working as a Professor at the same university since 2024. He generally works on Glacial Geomorphology, Applied Geomorphology, Tectonic Geomorphology, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. Dr Bayrakdar is the Secretary General of the Geomorphology Association and Editor-in-Chief of the Turkish Journal of Geography.

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Mehmet Şeremet has a PhD from the UK’s Plymouth University on GIS education and employability in the UK and Turkey. His current post is that of Reader in Human Geography at Van Yuzuncu Yil University in Turkey. He leads sustainable tourism-oriented projects in different parts of Turkey, including the Black Sea Region, and the Aegean and West Mediterranean Regions. He is also the co-editor of the Turkish Geographical Review and Geographies, Planning & Tourism Studies journals. His research includes critical subjects in both human geography and tourism studies, such as critical geopolitics, border learning experience, gender and sustainability, feminist geography, and critical GIS.

Michael Meadows, Immediate Past President of the International Geographical Union, is currently Professor in the School of Geography and Ocean Sciences at Nanjing University, China, but retains a research position in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, where he was Head of Department from 2001-2017. Meadows has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed research articles, including in Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience, Science Advances, PNAS, Geology, and Science Bulletin, He recently co-edited two major review volumes: Research Directions, Challenges and Achievements of Modern Geography (Springer, 2023) and Geography of the Anthropocene (Istanbul University Press, 2024). Meadows’ research interests lie broadly in the field of physical geography and more specifically concern environmental change and the geomorphological and ecological impacts of recent natural and human-induced changes. Meadows is an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Society of South African Geographers, the Royal Society of South Africa, the African Academy of Science, Academia Europaea and of the University of Cape Town. He is also a Fellow of the Geographical Society of China and of the International Science Council. He is recipient of the 2024 Royal Society of South Africa’s Marloth Medal for “highly distinguished, multidisciplinary contributions to the furtherance of science”.

Mehmet Şeremet has a PhD from the UK’s Plymouth University on GIS education and employability in the UK and Turkey. His current post is that of Reader in Human Geography at Van Yuzuncu Yil University in Turkey. He leads sustainable tourism-oriented projects in different parts of Turkey, including the Black Sea Region, and the Aegean and West Mediterranean Regions. He is also the co-editor of the Turkish Geographical Review and Geographies, Planning & Tourism Studies journals. His research includes critical subjects in both human geography and tourism studies, such as critical geopolitics, border learning experience, gender and sustainability, feminist geography, and critical GIS.