Emin Y. Menteşe works on different aspects of disaster risk reduction and urban resilience with an interdisciplinary perspective. As geomatic engineer and urban planner with GIS expertise (PhD), one of his core interests is developing geospatial solutions that address different components of disaster risk such as modelling exposure, visualising impacts and web-based tools to analyse disaster risk. He is the co-founder and co-director of the start-up company Anofa Engineering, Planning and GIS Ltd. based in Turkey.