Dr. Gul’s work is featured with design studies and design education. Her research interests include investigating human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work, design education, parametric design and fabrication, design cognition in virtual worlds and design teaching in virtual environments. She received her BArch (1993) and her MUCon (1996) in the Urban Conservation Program at the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul and MDes (2003) in Digital Media and PhD (2007) in Architecture at the University of Sydney. She was an associate professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, a lecturer at International University of Sarajevo, a lecturer and tutor at the University of Sydney, and a research fellow at the University of Newcastle (Australia) before joining Istanbul Technical University in 2014.