She studied Islamic Theology in Istanbul (BA and MA at Marmara University) and Christian Theology in Rome (Post-Graduate Diploma and Licentiate at the Pontifical Gregorian University). She obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge (2008), and worked as a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (2007-2010).
She subsequently held a post-doctoral fellowship (2010/11) at the Berlin-based research programme Europe in the Middle East – the Middle East in Europe (2010/2011) and Zukunftsphilologie fellowship (2011/12) at Free University of Berlin.
Her research explores Muslim-Christian theological encounters and she is the author of Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo: Najm al-Din al-Tufi’s (d.716/1316) Commentary on the Christian Scriptures (Brill, 2013).