Duygu Harmancı graduated from Ege University, Department of Chemistry in 2009. She received her MSc and PhD degrees from Dokuz Eylül University, Institute of Health Sciences, Department of Molecular Medicine. After working for 10 years as a research assistant, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher with the Biotechnology and Biosensor groups for about two years. Her main research interests are cancer, wound healing, miRNA, nanomedicine and innovative systems such as optical- and paper-based biosensors, etc.