Short CV

She studied architecture at Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) and received her Bachelor degree in 2004. After working in several architectural firms between 2004-2005, she started her Master studies at IZTECH in 2005 and continued her research at the Faculty of Architecture at KU Leuven in Belgium. She started her academic career as a teaching assistant at IZTECH in 2006 and completed Master in 2008. She continued her PhD studies at IZTECH and was awarded PhD Research Grant by TÜBİTAK in 2011. She worked as a PhD researcher at the Department of Architectural Engineering at Delft University of Technology in 2012 and at the Department of Innovative Structural Design at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2013 in the Netherlands. She received her PhD degree at IZTECH in 2015 and is currently working as a full-time academician at Yaşar University. She is institutional coordinator of the project entitled “Optimization Driven Architectural Design of Structures” that is granted under Marie-Curie Research & Innovation Staff Exchange scheme of Horizon 2020 Programme. Her research interests include Kinetic Architecture, Deployable Structures, Responsive Facades, Parametric Design and Structural Design.