Aysegul received her BS degree in Biochemistry and her Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience in 2018 from Pamukkale University, Turkey. She was awarded an International Research Fellowship by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. She completed her dissertation project in Alev Erisir's lab at the University of Virginia investigating the role of catecholaminergic pathways in ADHD. She joined Dr. Dan Meliza's lab in February 2020 to work on the involvement of the voltage-gated potassium channel (Kv1.1) in auditory learning. She will be joining the CLEF lab in Summer 2021 to investigate epigenetic neural mechanisms in the adult auditory brain.