Nilufer Yesilirmak received her MD degree from Gazi University. She received her PhD degree in Neuroscience from Paris Cite University and her second PhD degree in Medical Biochemistry from Gazi University. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute for more than a year, and she worked as an ICO fellow at the cornea department of Paris Descartes University for a year. She has been working as a Professor at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ophthalmology Department and Neuroscience Department. Cornea and external diseases, cataract surgery and artificial intelligence in ophthalmology are some of the topics she is interested in most.