Ayşe Sırma Yalçındağ holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering (Bilkent University), an MA in Turkish-English Translation and Interpreting (Dokuz Eylül University) and a PhD in Interlingual and Intercultural Translation Studies (Yıldız Technical University). She has been working as a translator since 2008 translating various documents in different fields. She currently works as an Assistant Professor in English-Turkish Translation and Interpreting Department at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University. Her research interests include Turkish translation history, medical translation, translator studies and translation criticism.