I was born in Muğla in 1968. In 1994, I graduated from Akdeniz University Faculty of Agriculture. I started my professional education at BATEM in 1996 and I am still working as the Head of the Department of Vegetables and Ornamental Plants.
I worked in the "Turkey Methyl Bromide Termination Project". My current project are "Linking Genetic Resources, Genomes and Phenotypes of Solanaceous Crops" funding by European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant (G2P-SOL)“