Between 2004 and 2008, I studied Turkology and Comparative Linguistics in Frankfurt and Istanbul. I obtained my M.A. from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University with a thesis on the Codex Cumanicus and received my Ph.D. from Marmara University in 2016 with a dissertation on Turkic loanwords in Written Mongol.
After serving as an Assistant Professor at Beykent University, I was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship and continued my research in Göttingen, focusing on Turkic elements in Middle Mongol and Para-Mongolic languages.
I subsequently joined the KOHD Project at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, where I catalogued more than 760 Old Uyghur fragments. From 2023 to 2025, I served as Director of the Department of Turkology and Central Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen.
I am currently a researcher in the project Altuigurisches Wörterbuch, where I work on nominal entries beginning with b-.