Prof Dr Atalı graduated from Marmara University in 2005 and received her PhD degree from Marmara University in 2011. She is working at Restorative Dentistry Department, Marmara University, İstanbul since 2011 and maintains a full-time professor with teaching responsibilities for undergraduate as well as graduate and post-graduate students.
Prof Dr Atalı continues her clinical and laboratory studies on dental materials, genetics and caries risk factors, preventive dentistry, direct-indirect restorations and bleaching. She published many research articles in national and international journals and book chapters. She presented poster/oral presentations and her researches were awarded at congresses. Prof Dr Atalı takes part as a director, researcher and supervisor in projects supported by DPT, TUBITAK, TUSEB and universities, where teams from many different disciplines work together. She is a member of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), Turkish Society of Restorative Dentistry (RDD), The International Academy for Adhesive Dentistry (IAAD), and Dentistry Education Programs Accreditation Association (DEPAD).

Prof. Dr. Birsay GÜMRÜ TARÇIN was born in 1975 in Ankara, Turkey. She completed her high school education at Akdeniz College Science High School. In 1999, she graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry at Marmara University. She earned her Ph.D. in Oral Diagnosis and Radiology from the same faculty in 2005 and was appointed as an assistant professor in 2011. Dr. Tarçın achieved the title of associate professor in 2016 and became a full professor in 2021. Currently, she serves as a faculty member in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology at Marmara University, Faculty of Dentistry, where she continues her academic and clinical work in oral diseases and dental radiology.