Born in 1986, Kavas graduated from Bilkent University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture in 2008. She completed her master's thesis on "Voluntary Environmental Organisations in Turkey", in 2011 and her doctoral thesis on "A Research on the Relationship between Municipal Services and Voter Behaviour: The Case of Ankara Yenimahalle and Altındağ District Municipalities" at Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Urban and Environmental Sciences Program, Ankara University. Asmin Kavas joined the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) in 2015 and worked as a Policy Analyst in the Urban and Regional Studies Programmes. Currently working as a lecturer at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Department of Urban and Environmental Problems, Kavas' research areas are Local Governments, Urbanisation, Environmental Problems and Gender Equality.