He was born in Istanbul in 1981. He graduated from TED Ankara College Foundation Private High School in 1999. He graduated from Gazi University School of Medicine in 2005. He began his residency in psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry at Gazi University School of Medicine and earned the title of Psychiatrist in 2010. He then began working as a specialist physician at Ankara Elmadağ State Hospital to fulfill his mandatory state service obligation. That same year, he began pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Neuroscience Doctoral Program affiliated with the Gazi University Neuropsychiatry Center. He voluntarily left Elmadağ State Hospital at the end of 2014.

After obtaining a Certificate in the Use of Laboratory Animals from the Gazi University Center for Laboratory Animal Breeding and Experimental Research in 2007, he began conducting animal experiments. He participated in a BAP project and related studies that involved modeling psychiatric disorders in rodents to conduct behavioral analyses and immunohistochemical evaluations of changes in the nervous system induced by psychopharmacological agents or behavioral interventions. He began his PhD in Neuroscience in 2010 and completed it in 2017 with a dissertation titled “Behavioral Effects of Gabapentin on a Schizophrenia-Like State Induced by Sleep Deprivation in Rats,” thereby earning his Doctor of Philosophy degree.

In addition to articles published in domestic and international journals, he has authored two book chapters—one national and one international. He has delivered scientific presentations at numerous congresses, conferences, and symposia. He has received one national and one international poster award. He has completed two TÜBİTAK-3001 projects, serving as the principal investigator in one and as a researcher in the other. His scientific interests include schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, addiction, psychopharmacology, modeling psychiatric disorders in experimental animals, and neurophilosophy.

He is a member of the Turkish Medical Association, the Turkish Psychiatric Association, and a member of the Board of Directors of NPFUAM (Center for Neuropsychopharmacology Application and Research). He serves on the Neuroscience Subcommittee and the Psychopharmacology and Somatic Treatments Subcommittee of the Turkish Psychiatric Association. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry since 2010 and a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Neurobehavioral Sciences since 2015. He is fluent in English and is married. 

TED Ankara College Foundation Private High School / 1999
Gazi University Faculty of Medicine / 2005
Gazi University Faculty of Medicine / Department of Psychiatry / 2010
Gazi University Neuropsychiatry Center Neuroscience Ph.D. Program / 2017

Ankara Elmadağ State Hospital / Specialist Physician / 2014

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