Bünyamin Akgül currently is a Principal Investigator and works at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Izmir Institute of Technology. He obtained a DVM at Ankara University School of Veterinary Medicine Vfrom 1986 to 1991, an MSc in Genetics at Pennsylvania State University University Park from 1993 to 1995 and a Ph.D. in Genetics at Pennsylvania State University University Park from 1995 to 2001. He did a Postdoctoral Research (IBMS) at Academia Sinica from 2003 to 2004. Bünyamin does research in noncoding RNAs and RNA modifications in cell death and cancer.