Özgün Özçakır has received his BArch degree in 2009 from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Department of Architecture and he continued for his graduate study in the Graduate Program of Restoration and Preservation of Historical Monuments in the same institution where he received his MSc degree in 2012. Özgün Özçakır studied with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Neriman Sahin Guchan for his MSc thesis called “Interpretation and Presentation of Natural and Cultural Heritage Sites: Environmental Design Project for Göreme Open Air Museum”. The thesis he prepared for the MSc degree won the “Best Thesis of the Year” award for the 2011 – 2012 academic year which is given by the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences of METU. He is enrolled for PhD studies in Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Graduate Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage where he also work as a research assistant since 2010. He had been in Erasmus University Rotterdam, The School of History, Culture and Communication, Arts and Culture Studies Program as visiting PhD researcher between October 2015 and January 2016. Since February 2016, he is visiting PhD researcher in University of Catania, Department of Economics and Business.