Selin AKDEĞİRMEN ERCAN

Conservation and Restoration,

Architectural History,

19th-Century Architecture,

Historic Rural Landscapes,

Rural Architectural Heritage

She graduated from the Department of Architecture at Anadolu University in 2011. Beginning her professional career that same year, she worked on various architecture and engineering projects between 2011 and 2017. She completed her master's degree at the Department of Architecture (Restoration Division) at Yıldız Technical University with a thesis titled "Historical Development and Conservation Issues of Minority Schools in Bosphorus Coastal Settlements," and her doctoral studies in the same division in 2025 with a thesis titled "A Method Proposal for the Conservation of Historic Rural Landscapes: Elmalı Plain Settlements."

She served as a Research Assistant (2017–2021) and subsequently as a Lecturer (2022–2026) in the Department of Architecture at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture, Antalya Bilim University. Since 2026, she has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the same department. She teaches courses on Architectural Design, Basic Design, Documentation of Historic Structures, Conservation of Historic Structures, and Architectural History.

Her academic work focuses on cultural heritage conservation, historic rural landscapes, rural architectural heritage, the documentation of historic structures and environments, conservation theory and practice, and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in cultural heritage studies.