Merve Yavas is an assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Ataturk University and has been a member of the Faculty of Architecture and Design since 2012. She received a B.S. degree in the same department at Karadeniz Technical University and a graduate degree in the City and Regional Planning Department at Mimar Sinan Fine Art University. Prior to joining the faculty, she worked at a private planning company for one year. Her research interests in city planning are in the areas of climate-sensitive urban design, digital simulation, and mapping of urban environments under different conditions.