Sefer Soydar completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of History at Middle East Technical University. He earned his master’s degree from the Department of History at Boğaziçi University, where he conducted a spatial analysis of the social and economic activities of waqfs in Ottoman Cyprus for his thesis. He has worked as a researcher on various international projects in the fields of digital humanities and geographic information systems and has published research papers. Additionally, he has worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University and as a research assistant in academic studies related to the intellectual, political, and economic history of the late Ottoman and early Republic periods. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University.