Çağlayan is a second-year Ph.D. student in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She is interested in using GIS and remote sensing techniques to understand long-term human-environment interactions in archaeological data. She holds a BSc in Environmental Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU, Turkey), a BA in Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology from Ankara University (Turkey), and an MSc in Settlement Archaeology from METU.