Volkan Yilmaz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente since July 2024 and serves as an Associate Professor at Karadeniz Technical University since January 2022. Previously, Volkan Yilmaz held the position of Assistant Professor at Artvin Coruh University from October 2019 to January 2022 and worked as a Research Assistant at Karadeniz Technical University from 2010 to 2018. Volkan Yilmaz earned a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Geomatics Engineering from Karadeniz Technical University in 2017, a Master of Science (MS) in the same field in 2013, and a Bachelor's degree in Geomatics Engineering from the same institution in 2009.