Dr. Himmet Karaman received a B.E. degree in Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2001, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Geomatics Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, Turkey, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was about the development of HAZTURK software on earthquake loss assessment and decision support software. He was a research scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 2006 – 2007 at the Mid-America Earthquake Center. In 2009, he joined the Department of Geomatics Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering at Istanbul Technical University as an Assistant Professor, and in 2015 became an Associate Professor. He is a Full Professor since 2020 in the same institute.
Since December 2015, he has been the director of the GIS Lab of the Civil Engineering Faculty. He is also serving as vice department head of the Geomatics Engineering Department a member of the Earthquake Science Supreme Board of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and a consultant to the Istanbul Urban Transformation Master Plan, Istanbul Resilience and Emergency Access Roads projects. His current research interests include resilience, disaster management, geographic information science, decision-making, and earthquake engineering. Dr. Karaman is a Fellow of the Board of Scientific Dictionary of the Turkish Academy of Science and a member of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority’s Earthquake Advisory Board since 2009. He has fifteen sci articles published in respected journals with a 10 h index. He has completed 5 projects as a consultant, 4 projects as a principal investigator, and 12 projects as a researcher within the scope of disaster management. He is currently advising 21 graduate students working on disaster management and resilience subjects and completed 3 Ph.D. and 11 M.Sc. thesis.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Duygu Uysal was born in 1988 in Ankara. After completing her primary, secondary and high school education at TED Ankara College, she received her Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees from Gazi University in 2009, 2011 and 2016, respectively. She completed her post-doctoral studies at the University of Rostock, Germany in 2018. Currently, she works as a member of at Gazi University, Department of Chemical Engineering.



She worked as the assistant director at Gazi University Clean Energy Research and Application Center between 2020-2023. Since April 2022, she has been a board member of the Turkish Society of Thermal Sciences and Technology.



She has researches and publications on Carbon Dioxide Emission Prevention, Transport phenomena, Fluidized Beds, Gasification, Clean and Renewable Energy, Alternative Hydrogen Sources. She also has Turkish published books titled "Applied Exergy Analysis for Processes" and "Fluidized Beds", co-authored with Prof. Dr. Bekir Zühtü Uysal.

He was born in Bayburt in 1990. He completed his primary and secondary education in Bayburt. After graduating from Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2012, he started his master's degree at the same university in 2012 for an academic career. He completed his master's degree in 2015 and his doctorate in 2021 and returned to Dicle University, where he was appointed in 2015. He currently works as a faculty member in the Department of Construction and Manufacturing at this university.

İshak Parlar, I graduated from Gazi University (Ankara, Turkey) Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in 2012. After working in the telecommunication field for many years, I entered academia. I completed master degree and doctorate (PhD) education at Yüzüncü Yıl University. I am also a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Electronics. I continue to work in areas such as analog electronics, digital electronics, memristor simulation, emulator design, oscillator design, op-amp design, matlab/Simulink applications, pSPICE, orCAD, Multisim circuit applications, filter applications, algorithm and optimization, video and audio encryption, PID, Sliding Mode Control and ECG, EEG and EMG signal processing applications, Arduino and FPGA applications.