Born in 1994, Merve Uzun completed her undergraduate education in Boğaziçi University Undergraduate Program in Science Education and started the Master’s Program of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Boğaziçi University, Institute of Environmental Sciences. Along with the courses she took in fields such as waste management, environmental economics, ecology, and environmental chemistry, she worked in the fields of sustainability and sustainable agriculture under the consultancy of Prof. Dr. Nilgün Kıran Cılız. In her master’s thesis titled “The Environmental Performance of Einkorn Bread Using Cradle-to-Grave Life Cycle Assessment Methodology Including Wheat Straw Utilization in Bioethanol Production”, she evaluated the environmental performance of the bread produced from einkorn wheat grown with organic farming techniques and permaculture principles, covering the whole life cycle using the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, and expanded the scope of the study by developing a scenario in which the obtained wheat straw was used in bioethanol production. During her graduate education, she also started to work as a researcher at Boğaziçi University Sustainable Development and Cleaner Production Center under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Nilgün Kıran Cılız. In addition to working as a researcher in projects such as “Determination of National Environmental Labeling Criteria in Personal Care and Cosmetic Products Sector with Life Cycle Practices”, “Determination of the Qualified Document Criteria and Scoring Principles for Zero Waste Certification” (both funded by the Turkish Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change), and “Go Zero – Zero Waste Management in Food Sector” (funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union), she is also involved in the preparation of several scientific texts such as articles. Merve Uzun, who graduated in July 2021 with the acceptance of her master’s thesis, continues her education at the Doctoral Program of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Boğaziçi University, Institute of Environmental Sciences, where she was accepted in September 2021.

Cennet Değirmen was born in Amasya, 1993. She graduated from the Environmental Engineering Department, Yıldız Technical University as an honor student. She completed the Master’s Program of the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Boğaziçi University in February 2022. Besides taking courses from various disciplines such as environmental chemistry, concepts in ecology, environmental modelling, and ecological economics during her graduate education, she has especially focused on environmental sustainability, life cycle assessment (LCA), waste management, zero waste approach and clean production. Since September 2020, she has been working as a researcher at Boğaziçi University Sustainable Development and Cleaner Production Center under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Nilgün Kıran Cılız. She played an active role in projects such as “Determination of the Qualified Document Criteria and Scoring Principles for Zero Waste Certification” and “Determination of National Environmental Labeling Criteria in Personal Care and Cosmetic Products Sector with Life Cycle Practices”, which were carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change. In addition, “Go Zero – Zero Waste Management in Food Sector” project, funded by Erasmus+ Program of the European Union, is among the research that she contributes to. She is about to complete her master’s thesis on “The Resource and Environmental Profile Evaluation of Personal Care and Cosmetic Products with Life Cycle Assessment Methodology” with the consultancy of Prof. Dr. Nilgün Kıran Cılız. She is entitled to receive a scholarship through doctorate within the scope of the Ministry of National Education's Selection and Placement of Students to be Sent Abroad for Postgraduate Education (YLSY) program.

Born in 1992, Ghazal Mahmoudi completed her undergraduate education in Tabriz Art University of Iran, Undergraduate Program in Architectural Engineering and worked on green buildings as the final project. She started the Master's Program in the Department of Urban Engineering and Architectal Design at Seraj University of Tabriz. In her master's thesis titled "Energy Consumption in Designing Educational Environment and Buildings for Autistic Children with the Green Environment Approach", during her graduate education, she also involved in some conferences about energy consumption and healing gardens in Civil, Urban, and Architecture Engineering in Islamic countries' conferences and got the certificates. Along with the courses she took in the fields such as green buildings, ecology and environment, waste management, eco-fuel and energy, public health and environment, fundamental of environments and sustainable development during her master and Ph.D. programs, she is working in the fields of sustainability and sustainable development, and zero waste management under the consultancy of Prof. Dr. Nilgün Kıran Cılız. She also is involved in the preparation of scientific texts such as articles, like using visual aids in educational environments and healing gardens effects in educational environments. Ghazal Mahmoudi continues her education at the Doctoral Program of the Department of Environmental Technology at Boğaziçi University, Institute of Environmental Sciences, where she was accepted in September 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nilgün Kıran Cılız.