F. Gökçe Cankara Kaya

Organisation: General Directorate of Forestry

Western Mediterranean Forestry Research Institute

Education — Master’s degrees

1. Süleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Engineering — Türkiye

2. Bangor University, Natural and Environmental Sciences — UK

Areas of work: Ecophysiology, Summer Drought and Quantitative Genetics

Fatma Gökçe Cankara was born in Burdur in 1992. In 2014, she graduated in Forest Engineering from Süleyman Demirel University’s Faculty of Forestry and also completed a double major in Plant Protection at its Faculty of Agriculture. She completed a master’s degree in Silviculture at the Faculty of Forestry in 2017.

In 2019, she studied Environmental and Natural Sciences at Bangor University in the UK through the Ministry of National Education’s YLSY overseas postgraduate scholarship programme. In 2024, she began doctoral studies in Silviculture within the Department of Forest Engineering at Isparta University of Applied Sciences.

She continues to work at the Western Mediterranean Forestry Research Institute of the General Directorate of Forestry.