Nilhan Torlak is a PhD candidate in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine program of Graduate School of Health Sciences at Koç University.
She has been working as a research assistant performing in vitro and in vivo laboratory procedures under the field of fetal surgery, especially congenital diaphragmatic hernia,
since 2019. She did her undergraduate studies in the department of Genetics and Bioinformatics at Bahçeşehir University.
She is currently continuing her academic research under the advisement of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emrah Aydın.