She holds a PhD in Architecture from Middle East Technical University (2020), where she completed her dissertation, Urban Metabolism of İstanbul: Waterfronts as Metabolized Socio-Natures between 1839 and 2019. She received her master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Istanbul Technical University in 2013, with a thesis titled Rain Water in the Energy Efficient Urban Landscape Design, and earned her BA in Architecture from Yıldız Technical University in 2008. During her master’s studies, she received research scholarships from TUBİTAK.

Her research focuses on urban ecology, urban metabolism, urban environmental history, alternative architectural practices, ethics in design, and the labor processes of architecture. She was also a fellow in the Istanbul Studies Center Doctoral Residency Program (2019–2020) at KHAS. She served as principal investigator of the research project Interactive Mapping of İstanbul’s Metabolism(urbanmetabolismofistanbul.com), which was funded by the MEF University Scientific Research Projects Fund during 2024–25. She is particularly interested in collaborative, creative, multidisciplinary, and community-engaged research.

Her work has been published in the Journal of Urban History, Planning Perspectives, Moment Journal, Arredamento Mimarlık, Praksis, and METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture. During the 2025–26 academic year, she is conducting postdoctoral research at the Laboratory for Urban Spatial + Landscape Research at The New School, examining how New Yorkers engage with restored waterfronts and estuarine environments in New York City.