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Elif joined the interior design program at Virginia Tech in 2016, where she is currently an associate professor in the School of Design. Leveraging her multidisciplinary design background and experience in environment-behavior studies, her research addresses how the built environment and indoor environmental comfort factors can foster health and wellbeing of occupants. In addition to the lighting and acoustics, and contemporary practice courses, Elif teaches the third-year design studios with a focus on workplace, cultural and educational environments, and in collaboration with community and industry partners where possible. She was also the recipient of the 2017 Edison Price Fellowship by the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education.

The Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, widely known as the 1954 Hague Convention, and its two (1954 and 1999) Protocols, are the first and the most comprehensive international treaties on the protection of cultural property in the course of armed conflicts. These treaties aim to preserve immovable and movable cultural property, including monuments of architecture, art or history, archaeological sites, works of art, manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest, as well as scientific collections of all kinds regardless of their origin or ownership.