Ferat Çağlar is a climate researcher with an interdisciplinary background in meteorology, climate change, geographical information technologies, hydro-meteorology, and environmental risk assessment. He holds a BSc in Meteorological Engineering and an MSc in Geographical Information Technologies from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), and is currently a PhD candidate in Earth System Science at the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, ITU.

His project supports the development of an integrated Arctic climate and energy/logistics dataset, identification of causal pathways linking Arctic changes to Türkiye's Water-Food-Energy system, and quantification of risks under scenario-based futures.

Email: caglarf@itu.edu.tr