Gizem Yenel Güler
About me
Gizem is an interior architect, researcher, and lecturer. She holds a PhD in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design from Bilkent University and an MSc in Interior Design from Politecnico di Milano. Her doctoral research examined how visual privacy and visibility affect employee interactions in open-plan offices through a space syntax approach. After completing her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at the KTH School of Architecture, where she investigated activity-based flexible offices.
Her research primarily explores how the built environment shapes human behaviour and well-being, with a particular focus on work environments. Drawing on cognitive ergonomics, she examines how work environments influence employees’ cognition, perception, attention, decision-making, spatial preferences, and interaction. Her work aims to support employees’ cognitive comfort and efficient work practices, contributing to the planning and design of work environments.
Teaching:
At KTH, Gizem teaches within the master’s programme Work, Technology, and Health at the Division of Ergonomics.
Autumn 2026
CH2010 Cognitive Interaction Design
Course Coordinator and Teacher
Autumn 2025
CH2010 Cognitive Interaction Design
Course Coordinator and Teacher