Asli Silahtaroglu earned, from Istanbul University, a BSc in Biomedical Sciences (1988), from the University of Glasgow, a MSc (Med.Sci) in Medical Genetics, and a PhD in Medical Biology/Genetics (1995) from Istanbul University with a research project at JFK Institute, Denmark. She is now an Associate Professor at Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Health and Medical Sciences Faculty of the University of Copenhagen. She has 67 publications. She is the course organizer for the Medical Genetics course for Odontology students and a teacher in medical genetics for medicine students and molecular biology and genetics courses in the Human Biology master program. She is a  founding member of Danish RNA society and member of the European Society of Human Genetics, Danish Society of Human genetics, American Society of Medical Genetics, and Turkish Society of Medical Genetics. She is the founder of Nordic "Genetics Educators Network in Dentistry". She is a member of the Joint National Examinator Corp for Medical Sciences in Denmark. Her research interests include Cytogenetics, Epigenetics, Rare Genetic Diseases, Variant interpretation, 3D Organization of the Genome, Super resolution microscopy.