Burcu Balaban Ökten completed her undergraduate education at Istanbul Kültür University, Department of Architecture in 2003. In 2006, she received her master's degree from Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Science, Project and Construction Management program with her thesis titled "Impact of Culture on the Motivation of Employees in the Turkish Construction Sector". She completed her doctoral studies in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Institute of Science, Construction Management program in 2016 with her thesis titled "Information Management in Small and Medium-Sized Firms in the Turkish Construction Sector" and received the title of "Doctor".

Her academic interests are behavioral project management, information management, the impact of investor decisions on design and construction processes, and design changes in multifunctional building projects. She has various academic publications on these subjects at national and international levels. She teaches courses such as project management, construction management, and architectural design studio at undergraduate and graduate levels, and also serves as a thesis advisor.

Burcu Balaban Ökten has been working as a faculty member at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Faculty of Architecture and Design since 2012.

Ilaria Cavaliere (Bari, 18th May 1995) is a PhD architect. She graduated in Architecture in July 2020 at the Polytechnic of Bari with a vote of 110 cum laude, presenting a dissertation entitled "Architecture and Virtual Reality. Towards the definition of innovative design methods and models".
She discussed her PhD thesis at the Polytechnic of Bari in April 2024. The title of the dissertation was "3D printing for Architecture. Additive manufacturing applied to stereotomic design" and it dealt with the use of large-scale 3D printing for innovative stereotomic vaulted spaces.
She has assisted prof. Giuseppe Fallacara in the Architectural Design IV course held at the Polytechnic of Bari since the academic year 2020-2021 and she has taken part in numerous workshops and seminars with the role of tutor and speaker.
She is lecturer on contract of the course “Stereotomic Design” of the Master’s degree course of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Bari, department of Architecture, Construction and Design (ArCoD).
She has been part of the New Fundamentals Research Group since 2021.