In 2004, she studied traditional 2D animation at animation-school-hamburg. Her graduation film "Bo" (story, storyboards, design, animation) received amongst other international prizes first place at Hamburg Animation Award. She worked on animated feature films "The Three Robbers" and "Jasper" before her directorial feature debut in Sandman and the Lost Sand of Dreams. She is currently working on Kara (WT) a partly autobiographical animated feature that is set in Istanbul.