Pinar AykacPinar Aykaç, PhD (University College London, 2017), is a conservation architect with a MSc in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the Middle East Technical University. She holds a PhD titled 'Musealisation as an Urban Process: The Transormation of Sultanahmet District in Istanbul's Historic Peninsula' from the Bartlett School of Architecture. Aykaç was involved in various conservation projects in Turkey including the Presidential Ataturk Museum Pavilion Conservation Project and the Commagene Nemrut Conservation and Development Programme. Her research interests are museums' role in urban regeneration and heritage politics. Aykaç was a Weinberg Fellow at Columbia University's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America during the fall semester of 2017-2018. She is currently an assistant professor at the Middle East Technical University's Department of Architecture. Read More Read Less