Assoc. Prof. Pınar Çağlayan graduated from the Radio, TV, and Cinema Department of the Faculty of Communication at Ankara University in 2003, and subsequently earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Department of International Relations at Ankara University. Çağlayan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uşak University, where she also serves as department chair and director of the Uşak University EU Education, Research, and Application Center. His academic interests include international relations theories, Turkish-Greek relations, EU policies, Turkish foreign policy, international migration, nationalism, and Cyprus. Between 2021 and 2025, she worked as a researcher on a TÜBİTAK-1001 Project titled “The History of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in its 100th Year and the Process of Interaction with Turkish Foreign Policy” and an EU Cost Action Project titled “The Link Between Theory and Practice in Migration and Religious Diversity Issues.” In addition to her academic career, Çağlayan worked as a family and social services expert at the Ministry of Family and Social Services between 2006 and 2020. Between 2018 and 2020, she also served as an expert on the EU’s FRIT Program projects ESSN (Social Integration Assistance) and CCTE (Conditional Education Assistance for Foreigners) Projects under the European Union’s FRIT Program.