Firuzan Melike Sumertas graduated from METU, Department of Architecture and received her M.A degree from the same university, Program of Architectural History. She has pursued her doctoral studies at Bogaziçi University, Department of History. Her research area is the Urban and Architectural History of Istanbul during Ottoman period. Accordingly, her M.A research focused on Female Patrons of Architecture in Early Modern Istanbul, whereas her doctoral Project inquires the nineteenth century scholarship on ‘Old Istanbul’, particularly in Greek. Within this framework, she has presented papers and published articles in local and international milieus. During her Ph.D research, she was awarded with the Fulbright Cultural Exchange Scholarship and spent an academic year at Princeton University, Department of History. She also participated Erasmus Student Exchange Program and studied one semester at University of Crete, Department of History and Archaeology. Additionally, she was awarded with scholarships from significant research institutions such as ARIT – Istanbul, AKMED – Antalya, EFA – Athens, SNF – Athens, Bodossaki Foundation – Athens, – NEC – Bucharest. Her research languages are Ottoman Turkish and Greek. Sümertaş has participated several research and exhibition projects besides her academic life. She also worked at Anadolu University Department of Architecture and Boğaziçi University Department of History, with full time contract, and at MEF University, Department of Architecture with part time contract. She is currently a visiting scholar at Kadir Has University Department of Architecture.