FOUNDATION YEAR 2024
Sustainable Regional Development Scientific Journal
Albanian Association of Regional Scientists
FOUNDATION YEAR 2024
Sustainable Regional Development Scientific Journal
Albanian Association of Regional Scientists
Professor TUZIN BAYCAN
Professor TUZIN BAYCAN
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical
University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional
Planning.
Research areas: urban and regional development and planning;
environment; climate change; urban systems; sustainable development;
creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship; diversity and
multiculturalism She obtained her MSc degree in Urban Planning (1993)
and PhD degree in Urban and Regional Planning (1999) at Istanbul
Technical University. She worked between 1991-2000 as Research
Assistant, 2000-2004 as Assistant Professor and 2004-2010 as Associate
Professor at Istanbul Technical University. Between 2001-2003, she
worked at VU University Amsterdam (visiting scholar) and she continued
her project basis works and regular collaboration with the VU
University Amsterdam between 2003-2010. She became Full Professor in
2010 at Istanbul Technical University.
She worked at George Mason University between 2010 and 2011 (visiting
scholar) and at University of Cambridge between 2019-2020 (visiting
scholar). Since 2020 she is working at Istanbul Technical University.
Prof. Baycan was the Chair of the EU Center at Istanbul Technical
University between 2005-2009 and 2014-2016. She was a Commission
Member of the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YOK) for the
“Regional Development-Oriented Mission Differentiation and
Specialization of Universities Program” between 2016-2021. She has
more than 20 years of experience in leading and participating in
international (UNDP) and EU Projects (FP5, FP6, FP7), European
Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST Action) Program and
Erasmus+ Program as well as bilateral joint research projects with
various European Institutions. She was also an Expert and Panel Member
of ERC Advanced Grants for Social Science and Humanities: Environment
and Society (2008-2015) and JPI Urban Europe (2012-2020).
She served as external evaluator for different research programs of
the EU countries including Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,
Norway, Portugal as well as ESF-European Science Foundation
(2010-2024). Prof. Baycan is Fellow of the Academia Europaea since
2011 with her studies in Social Sciences. She is President of Turkish
Regional Science Association and Council Member of Regional Science
Association International (RSAI) and European Regional Science
Association (ERSA). She has served as Editor and Editorial/Advisory
Board Member of Asia and Pacific Journal of Regional Science; Regional
Science Policy and Practice; Economic and Social Changes: Facts,
Trends, Forecast; Social Value & Intangibles Review; Region; Journal
of Independent Studies and Research- Management: Social Sciences and
Economics; Romanian Journal of Regional Science; Studies in Regional
Science; International Journal of Sustainable Society; A/Z ITU Journal
of Faculty of Architecture; Anadolu Economics – Anadolu University
Journal of Faculty of Economics; Journal of Design for Resilience in
Architecture and Planning; Architecture and Life; ICONARP
International Journal of Architecture and Planning; and TRIA
International Journal of Urban Planning. She is Co- editor of
Resilience, Crisis and Innovation Dynamics (2018); Editor of Knowledge
Commercialization and Valorization in Regional Economic Development
(2013) and Co-editor of Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting
Creative Urban Initiatives (2011) and Classics in Planning: Urban
Planning (2008). Prof. Baycan has contributed to the development of
Regional Science and to the fields of urban and regional economic,
social and spatial development at national and international level
with a wide range of studies she has done from sustainable development
to climate change; from migration and migrant entrepreneurship to
creativity, innovation and regional development; from urban economy to
social innovation. She has over 150 publications, including journal
articles, symposium proceedings, book chapters and books.
Academic Profile by:
Professor Assistant Filipos Ruxho, Sustainable Regional Development
Scientific Journal
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