Hale Kırer Silva Lecuna, Ph.D. is an economist and mathematician focusing on income distribution, economic complexity, environmental economics, energy poverty, and econophysics. She currently teaches and conducts research at Bandırma Onyedi Eylul University in Türkiye, where she also serves as Vice Director of the Graduate School. She has carried out research at The New School for Social Research (NSSR, New York) and Kiel University (CAU, Germany), and has lectured at St. John’s University and the Henry George School of Social Science in New York. Her recent work explores the intersection of innovation, inequality, and sustainability using advanced econometric techniques.