B.Sc. in Chemistry, Middle East Technical University 

M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, Middle East Technical University

Ph.D. in Chemistry/Chemical Biology, State University of New York at Binghamton

Postdoc in Chemical Biology, Cornell University and SUNY

2025 GMU OSCAR Faculty Mentoring Excellence Award

2022-2023 Fellow, ASCB-FRED (Faculty Research and Education Development) 

2021/2023 Fellow, ASCB- ACT (Accomplishing Career Transitions)  

2021 Faculty Award “Scholar of Promise”, University of the District of Columbia

2014 EMBL-EMBO Chemical Biology, Corporate Partnership Program Fellowship

2010 American Chemical Society (ACS) Zappert Award “Outstanding PhD Student Award”