We are happy to welcome Yağmur Aşçı Coşkun to the Community Collaboration Laboratory (CCLab) at RWTH Aachen University. Yağmur is an urban planner and designer with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from METU, where she graduated as the valedictorian of the Faculty of Architecture and received the 2022 Master’s Thesis Incentive Award from the İlhan Tekeli Foundation for Urbanism Culture, recognising the excellence and societal relevance of her research. Before joining RWTH Aachen, she worked for four years as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Izmir Institute of Technology, contributing to studio coordination, design research, and collaborative teaching. She has been involved in national and international research projects, including a Horizon Europe project on social economy and community innovation, as well as TÜBİTAK-funded research on urban form, environmental health, and children’s spatial experiences. Her research focuses on environmental psychology, participatory planning, youth and community engagement, and sustainable urban transformation. At CCLab, she joins us as a doctoral researcher, contributing to our work on spatial justice and just energy transitions.