
Fixed-term assistant professor
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
Profile
Biography
Candan Eylül Kilsedar obtained her BSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Sabanci University in 2012 and her MSc degree in Informatics Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2014. She worked as a research fellow in the GEOlab of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA) at Politecnico di Milano from January 2015 to June 2020, during which time she contributed to various projects, mainly on the urban environment. Some of her projects are available at https://github.com/kilsedar She obtained her PhD degree with honours on using free and open-source software for multidimensional visualisation and processing of open urban geospatial data at Politecnico di Milano in 2020. From June 2020 to March 2025, she worked in Directorate D (Sustainable Resources), Unit D.1 (Forests and Bioeconomy) and Unit D.6 (Nature Conservation and Observations), Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation (KCEO) Team of the Joint Research Centre (JRC). Currently, she is working as a researcher in the SDG11Lab of the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST).
Scientific branch
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)
Skills
ERC sectors
Teaching
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Pianificazione e Progettazione. Componente