She completed her bachelor study at the Industrial Design Department, Middle East Technical University. She took her master degree from Dokuz Eylül University Fine Arts Faculty, Textile Department, and completed her PhD study at Communications & Public Relations Department in the field of Fashion Communications in Egean University, focusing position and potential of Turkey's fashion industry in the global design market. Later she carried a post-doctorate research on Fashion Management in Bologna University by taking a scholarship from Italian Government. Being one of the academic founder members of the Industrial Design Master Program in Izmir Institute of Technology and of the Department of Fashion Accessories in Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, gave lectures including fashion accessories, aesthetics, technical drawing, product design, fashion collection, design marketing, design management, design consumption & fashion concept in design. Along with her academic studies, she carried free-lance design projects for the industry; won the best-accessory prize from the design competition, Beymen-Academia, and participated as a designer in a trend catalog project/Gold Trends Turkey,which she worked with a group of Italian designers in Milan for World Gold Council.

Currently she is working as the head of Fashion Design Department and giving courses such as  Introduction to Fashion Design, Fashion Collection, Collection Management, Fashion History, Contemporary Fashion Trends and Trend Analysis and Forecasting. She carries projects on trend research and prepares trend catalogs for the ready to wear industry, makes researches and writes articles on fashion studies and fashion theory.