Lale Barlas was born in 1984. She grew up mostly in Istanbul, and a little in Rust, Burgenland, Austria. She lived in Chicago in 2002-2009; comleting her undergraduate work and mastrers' degree (neuroscience, psychology) there. She worked in the Kay Lab at the University of Chicago.
She returned to Istanbul in 2009 and began her PhD at Hacettepe University, Ankara. She is currently working on her thesis.
