Dr Deniz Ikiz Kaya is an Assistant Professor in Architectural Urban Design and Engineering Unit of the Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology. She holds a PhD degree in Architecture awarded by the School of Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her areas of expertise include heritage management, adaptive reuse and urban transformation, sustainable development and smart citizen engagement in participatory co-creation processes. Her research interests focus on exploring and assessing how the existing buildings, cities and landscapes are transformed and reshaped in this rapidly changing urban century, and how their protection and continued use can be ensured in a sustainable, participatory and innovative way in response to the existing societal challenges. She has been involved as principal investigator or Work Package leader in a number of national (i.e. NWA Consortia) and European research and innovation action projects (i.e. CLIC H2020, e-CREHA Erasmus+ KA2 projects). She is also a Irene Curie Fellow at TU/e.