He is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Izmir Bakircay University, Türkiye. He received his PhD in Geophysics from the University of Ulster (UK), supported by the Vice Chancellor’s Research Scholarship, where he conducted his doctoral research at the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences on viscoelastic relaxation and earthquake triggering. His research interests include earthquake physics, seismotectonics, crustal deformation, stress transfer modelling, GIS and remote sensing, artificial intelligence-based spatial modelling, land-use/land-cover change, biodiversity analysis, conservation planning, and disaster risk management. He actively integrates numerical modelling, ANN–Markov forecasting, and geospatial analytics in environmental and hazard studies. Prof. Dr. Sunbul has held research and academic positions in the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Germany, and has participated in European Union and national research projects on biodiversity monitoring, seismic hazard assessment, landslide modelling, and post-earthquake urban transformation. He has extensive experience in multidisciplinary project management, grant writing, and graduate supervision. He has published widely in leading international journals, including Ecological Indicators, the Journal of Geodynamics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, The Geographical Journal, and Biodiversity and Conservation. He is a member of the European Geosciences Union and the Seismological Society of America.