Pınar obtained her bachelor’s degree at Istanbul Technical University, completing a double major in Molecular Biology and Genetics as well as Chemical Engineering. She pursued her master’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Koç University, where she studied on autophagy and cancer, focusing on developing autophagy-targeting chimeras. After obtaining her master’s degree, she joined the Stolz lab in January 2025 as a PhD student, where she is focusing on the regulation of ER-phagy and the protein complexes mediating ER interactions with other organelles.