Graduated as architect, and awarded Master’s degree with the thesis “Building Marshall Plan in Turkey: The Formation of Workers’ Housing Question, 1946-1962” at the Middle East Technical University. In her thesis, analyzed the formation of workers’ housing discourse and workers’ housing cooperatives, and the socio-spatial development of workers’ housing settlements in relation to urbanization policies of the 1950s and 1960s guided by the ideological and spatial programming of the Marshall Plan in Turkey. This research was awarded Honourable Mention in “Young Social Scientists Awards” by the Turkish Social Sciences Association. Worked as an assistant and lecturer in Turkey in 2012-2019; took part in architectural and urban design studios as tutor and reviewer, prepared and lectured the undergraduate course Case Studies in Social Housing and Community Planning. Since September 2019, PhD student and doctoral assistant at the Laboratory of Construction and Conservation at EPFL. Her PhD research focuses on transnational and local models of social housing production by welfare states at the Northern Mediterranean countries which participated in the Marshall Plan and applied housing programs in relation to development and planning programs. This research is awarded a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for PhD by the Swiss Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS).