Education
Ph.D. (in progress), University of Florida, M.S., University of Florida, 2023 B.S. in Psychology, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, 2020, B.A in Architecture, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, 2020
Profile
Ece Yuksel is an architect turned cognitive psychologist studying how humans find their way through real and virtual worlds. Her research bridges spatial navigation, aging, and human-centered design to make spaces - both physical and digital - more intuitive and inclusive. When she’s not researching navigation behavior, she’s battling her caffeine addiction, photographing in B&W, or training her tuxedo cat, Nova Bean, to sit before dinner and eat on cue - all while proudly remaining in Tove Lo’s top 0.01% of Spotify listeners.
Name hack: If you’re wondering how to say her name, it’s close to “eh-jeh” but her Starbucks name is AJ, and at this point, she answers to both ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
