Short Biography: Professor Gehan Selim is the Hoffman Wood Chair in Architecture at the University of Leeds. She is the Deputy Director at Leeds Social Sciences Institute and was Fellow of The Senator George Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice (2017/18). She is leading the Architecture and Urbanism Research Group at the University of Leeds with her research covering interdisciplinary methods bridging between Architecture, Memory and Digital Heritage. She has developed a sustained record of over 70 high-quality publications. She leads and coordinate over 20 research projects, leading multi-international teams in the global south. Her research received multiple national/international awards such as The Routledge Area studies Impact Award (2023); The Newton Fund Prize for Outstanding Impact (2020); Best Practice Project Award by the International Council of Museums, ICOM (2017); and the Women of Achievements Awards (2021) in recognition of excellence and outstanding performance in interdisciplinary research. She developed an international reputation through a prestigious appointment as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, at the University of Tokyo in 2014. She received numerous invitations to deliver keynote talks at international and national conferences (15 countries, 32 Panel Chair and talks). She is the author of ‘Unfinished Places’ (Routledge, 2017) and ‘Architecture, Space and Memory of Resurrection in Northern Ireland’ (Routledge, 2019).