She studied architecture in Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir and obtained her masters and doctoral degrees from the same institution. She received a travel grant in London offered by the British Council Cultural Affairs in 1991 when she was pursuing her masters thesis.  During her doctoral research she was awarded funding for travel to Switzerland offered by Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. After having a nine-year period of academic positions in different universities in Turkey and TRNC, she started to work as an assistant professor at the Izmir Institute of Technology in 1997.  Her Research interests include anti-orientalism, contemporary architecture in Islamic countries and gender issues. She is the author of two book chapters on the topic of women in architecture published in Turkey. She received a commendation from Milka Bliznakov Prize in 2002 with her article entitled “Turkish Women Architects in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Era, 1908-1950”.  She is also teaching and conducting research in the graduate program of Women Studies in Ege University.