Dr. Yavuz Çelik received his bachelor's degree from the Department of History at Istanbul University. He completed both his master's and PhD studies in China with a scholarship from the Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey. He earned his master's degree at Nankai University in the Department of International Relations and Public Policy and his PhD at Shanghai University in the Department of Global Studies. His research focuses on China's policy in Central Asia, its socio-economic relations in the region, its increasing influence, and its competition with other regional actors. He has published several academic articles on China-Central Asia relations. As of December 2024, he has started working at the Institute for Area Studies at the Social Sciences University, teaching Comparative Politics in Turkic States.