Books By Gül Aktürk - Author

Gül Aktürk is Assistant Professor in Heritage Studies in the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University. Her research interest lies in the intersection of climate change and cultural heritage. Her research also investigates climate resilience of cultural heritage, vernacular heritage, cultural landscapes, climate displacement, intangible cultural heritage, land-use changes, critical heritage studies, and archaeological heritage management.

She is an architect and studied MSc Architectural Conservation at Edinburgh University between 2012 and 2013. She then worked in several architectural restoration projects and archaeological excavations for over five years.

She completed her PhD with the title of "Climate Change and the Resilience of Collective Memories" in the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft in January 2023. She received VAG Publication Grant to publish her PhD thesis as a book. Before completing her PhD, she started her postdoctoral research on I-tree 2.0 NL project in the Industrial Design Engineering Faculty at TU Delft.