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Hi! I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in City Modelling at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.

Research

My research focuses on development of computational methods for analysing built environments and human behavior in cities. I am motivated by questions in urban mobility, land-use, housing, social and health inequalities. The goals are:

• making quantitative measurements at high spatio-temporal resolution using emerging sources of digital data,
• estimating the influence of spatial factors on individual behaviour and outcomes, and
• characterising change and its drivers

in the context of cities.

Short Bio

I received my PhD degree in Urban Systems and Transport Planning from Imperial College London in 2016. I also hold a BSc. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Sabanci University and an MSE degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan.

After my PhD, I joined the Global Environmental Health Research Group as postdoc working for the Wellcome Trust funded Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities project. In 2018, I was awarded an MRC Rutherford Fellowship based at the MRC Center for Environment and Health. As part of my training, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I also worked as a Senior Data Scientist (part-time) at the Swiss Data Science Center at ETH Zurich, and as Senior Assistant at the Chair of Geoinformation Engineering at ETH Zurich between between 2018 and 2022.

In June 2022, I joined UCL CASA as Lecturer in City Modelling. We’re setting up the CASA Arup City Modelling Lab with Dr. Gerard Casey and Prof. Adam Dennett.