I'm a PhD student at School of of Computing Science, Newcastle University UK. I'm doing my PhD in synthetic biology under the supervision of Prof. Anil Wipat and Dr. Jennifer Hallinan.

I have a BSc in Control and Computer Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. After graduation I worked as a software engineer at various companies including Reed Business Information, Atos Origin, Ericsson.

My principle research interests are synthetic biology, systems biology as a foundation for synthetic biology, design of biological circuits, and data integration. During the course of my PhD, I have developed data integration strategies for informing computational design in synthetic biology. The techniques developed will be used to guide the design of genetic regulatory networks in Bacillus subtilis, a model organism. I aim to automate parts of the synthetic biology life cycle, by integrating existing biological data to create a semantically enriched knowledge base that can be used for the design of synthetic genetic circuits, creating dynamic models of basic synthetic biological parts, and automating the conversion of models of genetic circuits to synthesisable DNA sequences.