Gamze Dane

Gamze Dane is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Built Environment of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She is also affiliated with EAISI Mobility and EAISI Health. Additionally, she served as a Principal Investigator of the Digital City Program of Urban Development Initiative (UDI) between 2020 and 2024. Her work focuses on integrating citizens in urban transformation processes through digital tools and data-driven approaches.

Dr. Dane has a strong interdisciplinary background with a Ph.D. in "Urban Planning" and an MSc. in "Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Decision Making". Her educational qualifications provide the foundation for her research at the intersection of urban planning, GIS, and data analytics.

Dr. Dane's research centers on three key areas: (i) developing methods and digital tools as design and decision support systems for public participation in urban transformations; (ii) performing urban (big) data science within people as sensors concept for understanding citizens' behaviors; and (iii) investigating the impact of digitalization on sustainable urban developments. She employs approaches like VR-based digital twins, web platforms, and information dashboards to create citizen-centered solutions for urban challenges.

Her recent publications reveal a strong focus on immersive virtual reality applications for urban planning, agent-based modeling of pedestrian behavior, and digital tools for citizen engagement. There's a clear trend toward using advanced computational methods and virtual environments to understand human-environment interactions and improve urban design processes.

Dr. Dane has received several prestigious awards including:

• Best Poster Award at 19th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (2025)
• Cuperusprijs 2020 - 2nd place for master thesis of student Kim Raijmakers
• Dutch Design Week Drivers of Change Exhibition (2021)
• ISPRS International Journal of Geographic Information Cover Story of November 2020

As an educator, Dr. Dane supervises PhD, PDEng, master's, and bachelor's students in urban planning and urban informatics. She has led multiple education innovation projects, developing online teaching materials and integrating emerging technologies like VR, online mapping tools, GPS, drones, and mobile apps into curriculum activities. Her grant portfolio includes significant projects such as CARE (NWO funded), EQUAL (EWUU Alliance), I BELONG, HEADS 4 Health, Future Foodscapes, Dutch Societal Innovation Hub (EU Commission), CoHeSIVE, and several Horizon 2020 projects including CLIC and ROCK.

Dr. Dane is involved with several research groups and labs including the Real Estate and Urban Development group, Information Systems Built Environment group, EAISI Mobility, and EAISI Health. She leads the UBeX Urban Behavior eXtended reality lab (2024-2026) and has been instrumental in establishing virtual reality applications for urban planning and citizen engagement.