Ezgi Orhan

Ezgi Orhan is a faculty member at Çankaya University. She graduated from the City and Regional Planning Department of Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2007 and earned her Ph.D. in the same discipline in 2012.

 Her doctoral research, funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), focused on the post-disaster recovery processes and location choices of businesses. Since 2018, she has been serving as an associate professor in city planning. Throughout her career, she has held academic positions at METU, Pamukkale University, and Çankaya University, and has participated in national and international research projects as a consultant, project manager, and researcher. She is a resilience fellow at the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering in the Netherlands and a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Her research has been published in internationally recognized journals, with a focus on disaster management, business geography, and risk reduction policies.