Lieutenant Colonel Rabia Saylam Ph.D. received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering from the Turkish Air Force Academy, Türkiye. She earned her Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Atatürk University in 2020. Over the course of her career, she has held various posts within the Turkish Air Force as a CIS officer and worked as an Assistant Professor at the National Defense University, Turkish Air Force Academy. Currently, she serves as the Deputy Director and Chief of Staff at the NATO Command and Control Centre of Excellence in Utrecht, Netherlands.