Prof. Dr. Zeynep Işık has been a faculty member in Construction Management at the Department of Civil Engineering, Yildiz Technical University since 2009. She earned her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara in the same year. She has also been a visiting researcher at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), contributing to international collaborations in her field. Her research interests encompass construction and project management, strategic management, sustainable structures, performance management, contract administration, risk management, urban regeneration, cost management, and Building Information Modeling (BIM). She has published extensively and led various research projects in these areas.