She graduated from the Department of Sociology at Boğaziçi University. She later earned her master’s degree in Applied Developmental Psychology with a scholarship from Özyeğin University. In her thesis, she explored the impact of different family dynamics on children’s emotional development. During her undergraduate and graduate studies, she worked as a part-time teaching and research assistant.

She is currently working as a Researcher at the Center for Educational Policy Studies (EPAM), operating under the ILKE Foundation. Her research focuses on education policy, social-emotional learning, and child development. In addition to conducting research and preparing reports, she is actively involved in tasks such as report writing, data analysis and visualization, editing, and organizing workshops and launch events.

She is a co-author of several publications, including the Education Monitoring Report, Social-Emotional Learning in the Turkish Education System, and Digital Addiction and Education: Challenges, Trends, and Policy Recommendations.