After obtaining his BSc (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) and MSc in Economics (University of Vienna), he gained his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 2008. Until 2015 Kabadayı has mainly worked on the economic, financial and labor history of the Ottoman Empire. With UrbanOccupationsOETR he has pursued his academic career further as an economic historian, within the fields of digital and geospatial humanities, focusing on the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.

Elif Sertel is a Professor at Geomatics Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Istanbul Technical University where she was ranked as the first student among 2002 Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering graduates. She received her master’s degree (2004) and doctoral degree (2008) in Geomatics Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University. She conducted her PhD dissertation work at Rutgers University, USA as a Fulbright Scholar. She is the first Geomatics Engineer selected for Fulbright scholarship in Turkey. She investigated impact of land cover change especially due to the urbanization on regional climate in her PhD study. She held post-doctoral researcher position at Rutgers University. Dr. Sertel became an Assistant Professor at Istanbul Technical University in July 2009. She was entitled as Associate Professor in April 2010 and Professor in March 2016.

She held the Director position at Istanbul Technical University - Center for Satellite Communications and Remote Sensing (ITU-CSCRS) between 2012 and 2021, where she was the Vice-Director between 2009 and 2012. Prof. Sertel has been serving as an expert and Vice-Chair for the evaluation of European Union (EU) projects.

Prof. Sertel received Outstanding Young Scientist Award from Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2017 (TÜBA-GEBİP 2017) and she is the first Scientist received this award in Geomatics Engineering field.

web.itu.edu.tr/~sertele/

Ana Basiri is a Professor in Geospatial Data Science and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Glasgow's College of Science and Engineering. Ana works on developing (theoretical and applied) solutions that consider gaps, unavailability, and biases in data as a useful source of data to make inference about the underlying reasons that caused missingness or biases. For this, she leads a team of an interdisciplinary team and collaborates with world-leading academic and industrial partners, including Ordnance Survey GB, Uber, Alan Turing Institute, and engage with the public, policymakers, and government. Ana is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Navigation, and associate editor of several journals including IET Smart Cities, and has received several awards and prizes, including Women Role Model in Science by Alexander Humboldt and European Commission Marie Curie Alumni.

gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/anabasiri/

My research interests are in long-run social and economic developments in England between the mid sixteenth and late nineteenth centuries with a particular focus on the development of agrarian capitalism and the Industrial Revolution.

Murat Güvenç is the director of the Istanbul Studies Center of Kadir Has University, Istanbul. His academic interests concentrate on intra-metropolitan industrial geography, urban history and data visualization. He established and directed the Center for Urban Studies of İstanbul Şehir University between 2010 and 2014, where he carried out a comprehensive study on internal migration in Turkey sponsored by the Scientific and Technical Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and research projects on the social and economic urban history and geography of Istanbul, Izmir and Bursa metropolitan areas. Professor Güvenç currently works on problems of visualization and communication of big data.

Grigor Boykov, PhD in Ottoman history (Bilkent University, 2013) is a researcher at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IHB, ÖAW). Previously he taught at the University of Sofia (2014-2019), Central European University in Budapest (2015-2016), and was a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (2012-2014). Boykov’s research utilizes various digital tools for spatial and quantitative analysis of Ottoman population and socio-economic history. He has been a team member of the projects ERC-CoG-2014 OTTOCONFESSION (2015-2016) and ERC-StG-2015 UrbanOccupationsOETR (2017-2019). In 2019 Boykov received Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-Individual Fellowship for his project Population Geography of Bulgaria, 1500-1920: An Historical Spatial Analysis (POPGEO_BG), carried out at Koç University.

oeaw.ac.at/ihb/personen/boykov-grigor