Safak Chasan was born in Athens, Greece. She graduated with a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Middle East Technical University (METU). She completed her M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology at University of Bonn. She received her doctorate (Molecular Cardiology/Biology) at University of Heidelberg in 2019. Currently she is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Centre for Experimental Orthopaedics, University Hospital Heidelberg on cartilage regeneration and tissue engineering.