I am an Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Design at Loughborough University. I completed a postdoctoral fellowship as a Marie Curie Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at the UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. I am an architect by training and a graduate of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Before my doctoral studies, I worked for several architectural firms in the USA specialising in developing concepts for large-scale urban projects. While working on my doctorate, I was invited to be a guest researcher to the Spatial Cognition Research Center of Computer Science and Social Research Institute at Freiburg University. As a research assistant, I have also participated in several projects of the European Union on Architectural Cultural Heritage.