She was born in 1971 in Turkey, Malatya. After completing primary and high school, she completed her two-year Textile Handicrafts Associate Degree at İnönü University. She completed her undergraduate education as a Handicrafts teacher at Konya-Selçuk University. She completed her Master’s degree in Handicrafts at Konya-Selçuk University Social Sciences Institute. She completed her proficiency in Art Education in the field of Handicraft Education at Ankara Gazi University Institute of Educational Sciences.

She started her academic life at three different universities in 2002; she worked as an academician in vocational education, handicrafts, and graphic design at the faculties of Architecture and Art Design and Fine Arts and Design. She currently continues her academic and artistic studies as an Associate Professor at İnönü University Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Traditional Turkish Handicrafts.

Her Master’s and Doctoral theses include workshops on traditional ethnographic jewelry and production techniques of Anatolia in two Turkish museums. She visited Diamond Design Centers in Antwerp, Belgium, and was invited as an academic visitor to work with PhD researchers at the Department of Jewelry Design at Loughborough University in the UK.

She continues to organize workshops where sustainable and cultural heritage elements are used, and textile weaving techniques are adapted to jewelry design.