I joined the Secrier Lab in June 2023 at UCL, focusing on tumour dormancy using publicly-available single-cell transcriptomics datasets. My research pivots around cell cycle arrest in the context of cancer biology, particularly examining cell-cell interactions.

After completing a BSc and an MSc degree in Bioengineering at Ege University, Turkey, I led projects in fields such as stem-cell-based tissue engineering during my PhD at the National University of Singapore and endoplasmic reticulum stress as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where I pioneered the infrastructure for single-cell RNA sequencing. Outside academia, I volunteer with KizCode (girls who code), teaching biological data analysis to young women from underprivileged backgrounds.