Visiting researchers

Professional Experience:

Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture (2011 - present)
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, China.

Research Interests:

• Urban Village and Floating Population Settlement
• Housing Design

Research Experience:

Director of Research on: 

• Research on Improvement Method in Residential Environment of Floating Population
• Talent Technology Fund Project (2012 - present)

Major Research Projects:

Special Research Project in Bureau of Cultural Relics of Shaanxi.
Research on Village’s Construct and Remediation in Large Ruins 
Preservation in Chang’an Ancient City.

Talent Technology Fund Project in Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology.
Research on Improvement Method in Residential Environment of Floating Population. 

Talent Technology Fund Project in Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology.

Research on the Process of Architecture Design in the Market Economy.

Professional Experience:
Teaching Assistant, School of Civil Engineering（2006 - 2007）

Lecture, School of Architecture and Design（2007 - present）
Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.

Visiting Scholar, School of Architecture (2009 - 2010)
Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

Research Interests:
Theory of Architectural Design 
Conservation and Regeneration of Architectural Heritage

Research Experience: 
Director of Research on: Spatial Conception of Gazetteer Illustration
The Study of the Relationship between the Design Tools and Architecture Form

Major Research Projects: 

Research project fund by China Scholarship Council
Spatial Conception of Gazetteer Illustration 

Fundamental Research Funds for the National University 
The Study of the Relationship between the Design Tools and Architecture Form

Research project fund by Rural Development Bureau of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the P.R.China 
The Investigation and Research of the traditional dwellings in Beijing, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang Province

School of Architecture & Design, Beijing Jiaotong University

 Born in Samsun (Turkey) in 1977, Senem Kaymaz Koca has graduated from Istanbul Technical University Department of Architecture in 2001. She took her MSc degree from the same university in 2005, with thesis entitled ‘Placelessness in Contemporary Architecture’.

After working as architect in several architectural offices in Istanbul between 2001 and 2005, she worked as research assistant at Bahcesehir University Faculty of Architecture between 2005 and 2007. Her PhD in Architectural Design at Yildiz Technical University was completed in 2012, with thesis entitled ‘The Potentials Endowed upon Space by Information Flows and an Attempt to Read an Information City: The Case of Istanbul’.

She has been working in the Department of Architecture at Yildiz Technical University as an assistant professor since 2007. Her research fields concentrate on information city, architectural design theories and theories of space and place.

She has published many academic articles in national and international journals and attended many international symposiums and workshops. She is a member of Chamber of Architects in Turkey.