Bige Tunçer is associate professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Prior to joining SUTD, she was visiting professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and assistant professor at TU Delft, Netherlands. Previously, she worked at the Chair for Architecture and Chair for Computer-Aided Design (CAAD) at ETH Zurich. She has been principal investigator and participant of a number of funded research projects. She regularly leads scientific workshops and gives lectures internationally.

Bige Tunçer is a member of scientific committees of various journals and conferences and has organised two international peer-reviewed conferences, one of which was chaired by her. As part of her work at the Delft School of Design, in 2007–2008, she organised the Architectural Engineering: Performance, Geometry, Materials programme consisting of lectures and workshops, which assembled some of the world’s leading academicians and practitioners. She has conceived and taught numerous MSc and BSc courses since 1996 and is advisor to a number of PhD and MSc graduation projects. She has organised and participated in three interdisciplinary virtual design studios, and was granted an AIA Education Honor Award for one of them.

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Affiliation

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Education

PhD in Architecture (Design Informatics), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (2002-2009)
MSc in Computational Design, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (1994-1996)
BArch in Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Turkey (1989-1993)