She is originally from Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from high school, Robert College of Istanbul, she went to MIT and did her bachelor’s in physics with minors in music and math and followed that up with master’s degree in particle physics. During that time, she worked on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS project, which was installed on the International Space Station ISS in May 2011. She did her D.Phil. at Oxford University, working at CERN on ATLAS Semi-Conductor Tracker (SCT). She was a CERN Research Fellow working on the ATLAS High Level Trigger for two years and then a visitor at University of Cambridge for six months. She spent a year as a researcher with IFAE Barcelona, working on jet trigger, jet analysis with first data from the LHC! She carried the Olympic flame on July 6th, 2004 in Uskudar, Istanbul.