Lieutenant Colonel PhD Tuncay Yunus Erkec graduated in 2003 from the Turkish Air Force Academy with a BSc in Electronic Engineering, in 2017 from the Istanbul Technical University with a MSc, and in 2021 had his PhD at the National Defense University, Hezarfen Aeronautics and Space Technologies Institute for Space Sciences. He currently works as an assistant professor in the same department. He served as a NATO FOB operations officer and acting commander and was awarded a NATO Meritorious Service Medal. He holds a patent on satellite design and is a Commercial Pilot license holder. His research topics include satellite design, satellite attitude and orbit determination, Kalman filtering, relative navigation, and formation satellite flight.