Nurdan Atalan Çayırezmez is a Near Eastern Archaeologist who holds a PhD in Information and Records Management from Ankara University. Her Master’s degree was in Settlement Archaeology from the Middle East Technical University. She has worked on different archaeological sites in Turkey, and her skills include using remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She applied these GIS skills to landscape archaeology whilst working as an archaeologist and Project Assistant at the Kerkenes Project in Yozgat and Ankara between 2000 and 2004.