Ece joined Make in 2026 as a Part 1 architectural assistant following voluntary work at NGO Article 25 in Canary Wharf, a research assistant role at Manchester School of Architecture, and a stint with tp bennett’s sustainability team. She’s currently working on a retrofit scheme at Birmingham’s Grand Central to transform a former department store into a future-focused workplace.

As a student, Ece was awarded the John H.G. Archer Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and had an essay on aesthetic escapism published in Dezeen. She was also part of the team that won UK First Place in the STUCAN Climate Action architecture competition.

Ece is especially interested in social sciences and linguistics, and has served as a jury member for the Harvard GlobalWe essay competition since 2023. She represented Türkiye in the International Linguistics Olympiad in 2023, volunteered for the organisational committee in 2024 in Brazil, and is now a member of the Turkish Linguistics Olympiad Board, supporting the annual national exam logistics.