I received my BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2003. I also completed my MSc at METU, in the Science and Technology Policy Studies program, with the project entitled “Fundamental Developments of the Sixteenth Century Ottoman Architecture: Innovations in the Art of Architect Sinan.” Between 2008 and 2009, I contributed popular science articles to Bilim ve Teknik Magazine.

In 2013, I received my PhD in History of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University with a dissertation entitled “The Building Activities of Gülnuş Emetullah Sultan.” I taught architectural history at Plato Higher Education College in Istanbul between 2010 and 2014.

In 2014–2015, I was awarded the Barakat Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and spent the academic year at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford. This research resulted in my monograph The Women Who Built the Ottoman World: Female Patronage and the Architectural Legacy of Gülnuş Sultan, published by I.B. Tauris in 2017 with a publication grant from the Barakat Trust. This book was published in Turkish as “Osmanlı Dünyasının Kadın Banileri – Gülnuş Sultan ve Mimari Mirası” by İş Kültür Yayınları in 2025. Another outcome of the same research was my article “A Missing Royal Mosque in Istanbul that Islamized a Catholic Space: The Galata New Mosque”, published in Muqarnas in 2017.

From 2016 to 2021, I worked as an assistant professor at Gaziantep University’s Faculty of Architecture. During this time, I coordinated the Erasmus+ project Timeline Travel: An Alternative Tool for Architectural History Learning and Teaching, which was selected as a Good Practice Example. I also transformed the outcomes of this project into Timeline Travel mobile application (iOS & Android). Since September 2021, I have been working as an assistant professor at Alanya University. My recently funded Erasmus+ KA220-HED project, “Palimpsest Cities: Gamification and Storytelling for Architectural History and Cultural Heritage Awareness“, was completed in April 2025 and it also brought the Palimpsest Cities mobile app (iOS & Android).

In addition to my academic work, I have been writing, translating, editing, and proofreading both architectural history texts and children’s books. Since 2009, I have been contributing stories and articles to Kumbara and Mini Kumbara children’s magazines. I have authored five children’s books so far: Mimar Sinan Macerası (Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2016), Bizans Kaçkınları (Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2021), Acaba Ne Olurdu? (İş Kültür Yayınları, 2021), Aklıma Bir Soru Geldi and Dinozor Olmak İsteyen Kuş (Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2024).

I recently earned the 2025 Senior Scholar Award from the Barakat Trust to conduct three-months research at University of Oxford. During this visiting scholarship, I will conduct my project entitled “Historicizing and Visualizing the Evolution of Ottoman Architecture in Istanbul from the mid-15th to early 20th century” between March and June 2026.

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