Burak Güneralp, Ph.D.

Burak Güneralp is a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. His interests focus on the underlying causes of urban land use change and its impacts on the environment. His broader research interests include spatio-temporal analysis and modeling, socio-economic/socio-ecological management problems (in relation to sustainability), and formal analysis of structure-behavior relations in dynamic models.

Burak employs (spatial) dynamic modeling, statistical analysis and geographical information systems (GIS) to study the significance of social, economic and political drivers of urban land use change in China.

Burak received his BS and MS with specialization on System Dynamics from Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey. He completed his Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.