Zeynep studied English Literature and philology at Istanbul University and holds a masters degree in Communications from California State University. She has fifteen years of professional experience in working with scientists, academic entrepreneurs, start-ups and mid-size companies in commercial development of early stage technologies and designing for sustainable innovation.

Currently Zeynep works as a researcher and co-lead of art science program at Waag Future Lab. Her passion and area of work focus on designing models and interfaces for integrating art into industry and science which she implements primarily though EU S+T+ARTS schemes. These projects allow large scale experimentations on diverse approaches to collaboration.

She is also working on her PhD research at Erasmus University, focusing on collaborations between art, science and technology, investigating how a shared social ecology for collaboration across diverse epistemic cultures can be conceptualised. In her research, she asks what we can learn from individual and collective experiences of artists, technologists and scientists when co-habiting a space for situating science and technology in societally and culturally relevant contexts. Her research builds on theories and practices of transdisciplinarity, arts based research, responsible innovation and ASTS. Zeynep also gives guest lectures at Erasmus University, is an active member of a number of research groups and is one of the co-authors of Creative Producers Manifesto published during Ars Electronica 2021.