Ayhan Kaya is Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence; and a member of the Science Academy, Turkey. He is currently European Research Council Advanced Grant holder (ERC AdG, 2019-2024). He received his PhD and MA degrees at the University of Warwick, England. Kaya was previously a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy, and adjunct lecturer at the New York University, Florence in 2016-2017. He previously worked and taught at the European University Viadrina as Aziz Nesin Chair in 2013, and at Malmö University, Sweden as the Willy Brandt Chair in 2011. He is specialised on European identities, Euro-Turks in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, Circassian diaspora in Turkey, the construction and articulation of modern transnational identities, refugee studies in Turkey, conventional and nonconventional forms of political participation in Turkey, and the rise of populist movements in the EU. His recent manuscripts are Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Between Reception and Integration (Switzerland: Springer IMISCOE, 2023, co-authored with Z. Şahin-Mencütek, E. Gökalp-Aras, and S. B. Rottmann), and Populism and Heritage in Europe. Lost in Diversity and Unity (London: Routledge, 2019). His recent edited volumes are Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety (London: Routledge, 2023, with Aysenur Benevento and Metin Koca); Memory in European Populism (London: Routledge, 2019, with Chiara de Cesari). Some of his books are Turkish Origin Migrants and their Descendants: Hyphenated Identities in Transnational Space (Palgrave, 2018), Europeanization and Tolerance in Turkey (London: Palgrave, 2013); Islam, Migration and Integration: The Age of Securitization (London: Palgrave, 2012); Contemporary Migrations in Turkey: Integration or Return (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2015, in Turkish, co-edited with Murat Erdoğan), Belgian-Turks, Brussels: King Baudouin Foundation, 2008, co-written with Ferhat Kentel), Euro-Turks: A Bridge or a Breach between Turkey and the EU (Brussels: CEPS Publications, 2005, co-written with Ferhat Kentel, Turkish version by Bilgi University); wrote another book titled Sicher in Kreuzberg: Constructing Diasporas, published in two languages, English (Bielefeld: Transkript verlag, 2001) and Turkish (Istanbul: Büke Yayınları, 2000). He also translated Ethnic Groups and Boundaries by Fredrik Barth and Citizenship and Social Classes by T. H. Marshall and Tom Bottomore to Turkish language. He also edited several books on migration, integration, citizenship, and diasporas. Kaya’s publications have been translated to several languages such as French, German, Japanese, Italian, Arabic and Dutch. Kaya was actively involved in two FP7 and three Horizon 2020 projects, and now he is involved in two different Horizon 2020 research projects on migration. Kaya received Turkish Social Science Association Prize in 2003; Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA-GEBİP) Prize in 2005; Sedat Simavi Research Prize in 2005; Euroactiv-Turkey European Prize in 2008, the Prize for the best Text Book given by TÜBA; and also the Prize for excellence in teaching at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University in 2013 and 2017. 

Prof. Dr. Şebnem Köşer Akçapar, 2019 yılından itibaren Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi (ASBÜ) Sosyoloji Bölümü öğretim üyesidir. Aynı zamanda, Küresel Göç Araştırmaları ve Uygulama Merkezi’nin Müdürü olarak görev yapmaktadır. ASBÜ kadrosuna katılmadan önce, 2016-2019 yılları arasında Koç Üniversitesi Sosyoloji bölümünde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktaydı. Bu dönemde, Koç Üniversitesi Göç Araştırmaları Merkezi’nde yönetim kurulu üyesi ve Asya Çalışmaları Merkezi’nin de kurucu müdürü olarak görev yapmıştır. 2012-2015 yılları arasında Hindistan’da Jawaharlal Nehru Üniversitesi’nde (JNU) ve Güney Asya Üniversitesi’nde (SAU) misafir akademisyen olarak çeşitli dersler vermiştir. Belçika’da zorunlu göç üzerine tamamladığı doktorasının ardından, 2006-2008 yılları arasında Georgetown Üniversitesi’nde Uluslararası Göç Araştırmaları Enstitüsü’nde (ISIM) doktora sonrası programı çerçevesinde Türkiye’den ABD’ye yönelik vasıflı göç konulu bir proje yürütmüş ve daha sonra yine aynı kurumda yüksek lisans düzeyinde karşılaştırmalı göç politikaları, entegrasyon sorunları ve Müslüman göçmenler konulu dersler vermiştir. 2009-2012 yılları arasında Georgetown Üniversitesi’nin Doğu Akdeniz Araştırmaları Merkezi’nde çalışmış ve 2011 yılında bu bölümün direktörlüğünü yürütmüştür. Akademisyen olmadan önce, kariyerine yurtdışında göçmenlerin kurduğu sivil toplum örgütlerinde sosyal hizmetli ve proje yürütücüsü olarak devam etmekteydi. Araştırma konuları ve yayınları arasında zorunlu göç, göçün kadınlaşması, emek göçü, vasıflı göç, yurtdışı Türkler ve siyasal mobilizasyon gibi farklı konular sıralanabilir. Güney Asya (Afganistan, Hindistan, Pakistan, Bangladeş), Batı Asya (İran ve Suriye), Kafkaslar ve Orta Asya’da (Gürcistan, Azerbaycan, Özbekistan) göç ve toplumsal hareketler konusunda uzmandır. Halen düzensiz göç ve göçmen kaçakçılığı, Suriyelilerin ülkelerine geri dönüşü, toplumsal sorunlar, göç ve vatandaşlık süreçleri üzerine çeşitli ulusal ve uluslararası projeler yürütmektedir. Çok iyi derecede İngilizce, orta seviyede Almanca ve Fransızca, başlangıç seviyesinde Hintçe ve Farsça bilmektedir.
Websitesi: https://sb.asbu.edu.tr/tr/personel/prof-dr-sebnem-akcapar 

Hakan Gülerce completed his master's degree at Istanbul University, Department of Social Structure-Social Change in 2012 with his thesis titled “The Role of Editing in the Development of Social Sciences and a Sociological Study on Academic Journal Editors”. He graduated from the Department of Sociology of the same university in 2017 with his doctoral thesis titled “The Reproduction of Christianity in the Encounter with Modernity”. In 2018, Gülerce started to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harran University and continued her postdoctoral studies in the fields of migration, social cohesion, youth studies, modernity and religion.

Gülerce received the title of associate professor in the fields of Sociology of Migration and Sociology of Religion in 2022. Gülerce, who is the director of Harran University Migration Policies Application and Research Center, has been and continues to be the coordinator of various projects on migration, forced migration, Syrians in Turkey and social cohesion in this center.

Gülerce, who served as the secretary general of the International Federation of Social Science Organizations between 2012-2019, assumed the presidency between 2019-2023.  He is currently a board member of the same organization.