Assoc. Prof. Mustafa ÖZALP, born on December 25, 1983, in the village of Uzakçay, Akdağmadeni district of Yozgat, completed his primary education in the same village, and his secondary and high school education in Ankara. ÖZALP went to Austria for his higher education at the end of 2004, and completed his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Vienna between 2005 and 2011. Since June 2016, ÖZALP has been working as a faculty member in the Department of International Relations at Yozgat Bozok University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, and served as the Director of Akdağmadeni Vocational School at the same university between 2016 and 2019. He received the title of Associate Professor in the field of “International Relations” in 2021. His academic study areas focus on Turkestan geography, European region energy policies, energy security, global warming, climate change, and migration issues. He is married and has one daughter.