She received her MS degree in Chemistry from Boğaziçi University in 1999 and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Delaware in 2005 after which she held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Chemical and Bioengineering Dept. at Drexel University (2006-2007). Her current research areas are polymers from renewable resources, polymeric biomaterials and polymeric fuel cell membranes.