Zeynep is currently a Master’s student at NeuroBM Lab, Kadir Has University, under the supervision of Dr. Yasemin Önder. After finishing Saint Benoît French High School, she graduated from Istanbul University as valedictorian, ranking first among all the graduates of both the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and the Faculty of Science. She also did a research internship in the Neuro-Genomics Lab of Dr. Yavuz Oktay at Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, working with the projects on rare developmental disorders, gliomas and neuropsychiatric diseases and their modeling with the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Her main research interest is the biological basis of behavior and the mechanisms of complex neuropsychiatric diseases, specifically eating disorders.