About me

I decided to study Bioinformatics back in 2004 at Sabanci University (Istanbul,Turkey), where I was inspired by the freshman projects offered by Ugur Sezerman, who is probably responsible for dozens of other people to choose to study bionformatics :). I graduated from Sabanci University in 2008 and moved to Vancouver/Canada to do my Master's degree.

I did my Master's degree in Vancouver/Canada, where I finished a Bioinformatics Training Program jointly organized by Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia. There, I had the chance to do rotation projects in the groups of Cenk Sahinalp , Inanc Birol , Marco Marra , and Nansheng Chen . I wrote my Master's thesis titled "Homology and Evidence-based Genome Annotation of Caenorhabditis Species" in the group of Nansheng Chen and defended my thesis in December 2010.

I obtained my PhD from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, where I worked in Toby Gibson's team . I defended my doctoral thesis on "the Roles of Short Linear Motifs in Human Diseases" in the University of Heidelberg in November, 2014 and stayed in Toby's team as a bridging postdoctoral fellow until July, 2015.

Since August 2015, I have been working in the group of Altuna Akalin at the Bioinformatics and Omics Data Science Platform. If you are curious about my professional background, check out my portfolio page.