Zehra Irem Turksezer is a Visiting Researcher at Department of Architecture at Kadir Has University, Turkey. She is a part of the Building Materials and Technologies group in the department. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (at Istanbul Technical University), and MSc degree in Civil Engineering for Risk Mitigation program (at Politecnico di Milano). At the end of MSc, she won a traineeship position in European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) to work on natural disaster impacts on critical infrastructures, specifically on power plants. Then she obtained her PhD title from Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Civil Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her PhD thesis topic was Resilience Management of Historic Structures: bridges, and her research interests include resilience management, disaster risk management, complex systems, and resilience modeling in the context of informed decision making.