ABOUT ME
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Rumeysa Ceylan-Çalışkan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Faculty of Architecture. Her academic work focuses on climate change and planning, sustainability, resilience, ecology and energy in planning, urban geography, social vulnerability, and spatial inequalities. She integrates Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial modelling techniques, GeoAI-supported analysis, and participatory research methods to develop multi-layered risk assessments and data-driven decision-support frameworks.
Her research also encompasses information technologies and data management in planning, smart cities, citizen science, and behavioural change. In particular, she examines energy-efficient and low-carbon urban lifestyles, citizen-oriented data production, and the societal implications of technology-driven planning processes.
She received her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from Yıldız Technical University with a dissertation titled “Individual Energy Conservation Behavioral Model Towards Sustainable and Smart Communities: The Kadıköy Case Study,” focusing on behavioural transformation, energy transition, and citizen-centered sustainability. She completed her M.Sc. in Urban Transformation and Planning at Yıldız Technical University, where she developed a methodological framework for assessing the sustainability performance of shopping malls within mixed-use real estate projects. She earned her B.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning from the same institution and received national awards for her work on smart growth and GIS-based spatial analysis.
Between 2016 and 2019, she served as a researcher in the EU-ERANET Smart Cities project Community Data Loops for Energy-Efficient Urban Lifestyles (CODALoop). In 2020–2021, she was awarded the TÜBİTAK 2214-A International Research Fellowship and worked as a Visiting Researcher at the Spatial Dynamics Lab, University College Dublin. She currently leads and collaborates on ITU-funded (BAP) research projects at multiple scales focusing on smart cities, sharing economies, urban resilience, risk assessment, and spatial vulnerability analysis, working closely with undergraduate and graduate students to develop data-driven spatial modelling and decision-support approaches.
Her research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals including disP – The Planning Review, Smart Cities, and METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture. She has received several national and international awards and fellowships, including the Routledge Poster Prize (ISOCARP), TÜBİTAK 2214-A and 2224-A grants, the YÖK 100/2000 PhD Scholarship, the AESOP PhD Scholarship, and the ESRI Young Scholars Award.
She actively contributes to international academic networks and served as a Coordination Team Member of the AESOP Young Academics Network, taking roles in organizing and chairing international conferences and workshops.