Ilgaz Yalçınoğlu is a pre-doc music researcher, radio host, and promoter. He is currently working on his dissertation on female, queer, and transgender sound system initiatives as part of the research group ‘Sound System Epistemologies’ at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. With a background in musicology, he taught courses on transgender theories and ethnographic research methodologies as a guest lecturer. He is a co-founder of the Turkish pop-focused event series Kudur and has a monthly radio show at Refuge Worldwide. Yalçınoğlu lives and works in Berlin.

As of July 2025