Aytek Soner Alpan holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His work examines the 1923 Greco-Turkish Population Exchange, processes of forced displacement and refugee experiences, the history of Turcophone Orthodox communities in the Ottoman Empire and Greece, as well as questions of memory and historiography. His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He is also the co-editor of Μουχατζηρναμέ / Muhacirname: Poetry’s Voice for the Karamanlidhes Refugees and the author of 1929 Tatavla Yangını ve Tatavla’nın “Kurtuluş”u (The Tatavla Fire in 1929 and the Salvation of Tatavla). In 2023–24, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. He currently teaches part-time at the Department of Economics at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. As part of the Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions project conducted at the BIAA, his postdoctoral research, “Before and Beyond Lausanne: Ottoman Refugee Politics and the Global Emergence of Modern Population Management,” examines how the Ottoman Empire’s long experience with refugee flows shaped modern practices of population governance and positioned the empire as a central actor in the global history of forced migration.