Can Vatandaşlar is an Associate Professor of Forest Management at Artvin Çoruh University in Turkey. He earned his B.Sc. in Forest Engineering and M.Sc. in Forest Construction and Transportation from Istanbul University in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Later, he completed his second M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Forest Management at Artvin Çoruh University in 2015 and 2021. He is also a member of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology and serves as a Working Group Leader of the Ecosystem Services Partnership. His research interests include Ecosystem Services, Forest Management, Remote Sensing and GIS, and Soil Erosion Modeling.