She received her BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul and her PhD (2003) from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. She was a Research Associate in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK from 2003-2005. From 2005-2008, she worked as a consultant at IPCOS B.V. in the Netherlands. In 2009, she joined the Control Systems Group of Electrical Engineering Department. Her research interests include mathematical modeling, optimization, model based control of chemical systems, interaction of process design and control and fast periodic operation of heterogeneous catalytic reactions.