Biography
Candan Eylül Kilsedar obtained her BSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Sabancı University in 2012 and her MSc degree in Informatics Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2014. She worked as a research fellow in the GEOlab of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA) at Politecnico di Milano from January 2015 to June 2020, during which time she contributed to various projects, mainly on the urban environment. Some of her projects are available at https://github.com/kilsedar. She obtained her PhD degree with honours on using free and open-source software for multidimensional visualisation and processing of open urban geospatial data at Politecnico di Milano in 2020. She served as the president of PoliMappers from November 2016 to December 2018 and later served as one of its faculty advisors until June 2020. From June 2020 to March 2025, she worked in Directorate D (Sustainable Resources), Unit D.1 (Forests and Bioeconomy) and Unit D.6 (Nature Conservation and Observations), Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation (KCEO) Team of the Joint Research Centre (JRC). Currently, she is working as a researcher in the SDG11Lab of DIST at Politecnico di Torino.
