**Meet the editor**

Mustafa Ergen graduated from Abant İzzet Baysal University's Department of Landscape Architecture in 2000 in Turkey. In 2005, he completed his first master's degree at the Gebze Institute of Technology in Urban and Regional Planning in Turkey and his second master's degree at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Landscape Architecture, Germany, in 2006. He studied

Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania between 2007 and 2008 in Greece and was granted a specialization diploma in Environmental Management. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree by the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, in 2013. In 2005, he started his professional life at the Yüzüncü Yıl University, Turkey, as a Research Assistant. Currently, he is the Department Chair of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at Amasya University in Turkey. He speaks English fluently, he has intermediate level of German language, and his mother tongue is Turkish. His studies focus on cityscapes, urban and landscape planning, design, and Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing.
