Dr. Himmet Karaman received a B.E. degree in Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2001, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Geomatics Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, Turkey, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was about the development of HAZTURK software on earthquake loss assessment and decision support software. He was a research scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 2006 – 2007 at the Mid-America Earthquake Center. In 2009, he joined the Department of Geomatics Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering at Istanbul Technical University as an Assistant Professor, and in 2015 became an Associate Professor. He is a Full Professor since 2020 in the same institute.
Since December 2015, he has been the director of the GIS Lab of the Civil Engineering Faculty. He is also serving as vice department head of the Geomatics Engineering Department a member of the Earthquake Science Supreme Board of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and a consultant to the Istanbul Urban Transformation Master Plan, Istanbul Resilience and Emergency Access Roads projects. His current research interests include resilience, disaster management, geographic information science, decision-making, and earthquake engineering. Dr. Karaman is a Fellow of the Board of Scientific Dictionary of the Turkish Academy of Science and a member of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority’s Earthquake Advisory Board since 2009. He has fifteen sci articles published in respected journals with a 10 h index. He has completed 5 projects as a consultant, 4 projects as a principal investigator, and 12 projects as a researcher within the scope of disaster management. He is currently advising 21 graduate students working on disaster management and resilience subjects and completed 3 Ph.D. and 11 M.Sc. thesis.