He received his B.S. (2002) and M.Sc. (2005) degrees in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU, Ankara, Turkey), and Ph.D. (2010) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Section at the University of Padova (UNIPD, Padova, Italy). He was a Postdoctoral Associate in between 2010-2012 in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (NJ, USA).