Ulanbek Turdukulov holds a Doctorate from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He started his career in 1996 as cartographer in St. Petersburg, Russia and then continued as a head of cartographic laboratory of Kyrgyz State University, Kyrgyz Republic. From 2007 till 2013 he was a lecturer in the Department of Geo-Information Processing at The Faculty ITC, University of Twente in the Netherlands. Prior to Wageningen University and Research he was a lecturer at Curtin University, Western Australia from 2013 till 2017. His research interests are geo-visual analytics, analysis and visualisation of spatiotemporal data and geo-web services.

• 1. September 2003 – September 2007, Ph.D. Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands & International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, the Netherlands. Thesis: Visualizing the evolution of image features in time-series: supporting the exploration of sensor data. Promoter: Prof.  Dr. M-J Kraak (ITC). Thesis is available at http://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2007/phd/turdukulov.pdf
• 2. January 2002 – March 2003, M.Sc. Geo-information Science and Earth Observation. International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, the Netherlands, Specialization: Water resource management. Thesis: Determination of water quality parameters using imaging spectrometry (Case study for Sajo floodplain, Hungary). Thesis is available at http://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2003/msc/wrem/turdukulov.pdf).
• 3. October 1999 – June 2000, Post-graduated course in Remote Sensing and GIS, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), CSSTE-AP, Dehradun, India. Thesis: Soil erosion assessment using Remote Sensing and GIS (Morgan approach). 
• 4. October 1990 – June 1995. Diploma in Geography with specialization in Cartography, St-Petersburg State University, St-Petersburg, Russia,