Mehmet Doğruluk is an academic staff member in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Hacettepe University, where he has also served as Head of Department since 2019. He received his bachelor’s degree in Geomatics Engineering in 2006, completed his master’s degree in Geomatics Engineering in 2013 with a thesis on the effect of digital terrain models on volume computations in highway projects, and received his PhD in Geomatics Engineering in 2021 with research on the accuracy of digital elevation models derived from very high-resolution stereo satellite and UAV imagery. His research focuses on geomatics, remote sensing, photogrammetry, LiDAR and UAV-derived point clouds, smartphone-based 3D reconstruction, terrain modeling, digital documentation of archaeological and built environments, and GIS-based spatial accessibility analysis. He is a regular member of CIPA Heritage Documentation and is engaged with the OpenHeritage3D community, which promotes accessible and scientifically rigorous 3D cultural heritage data.