Res. Asst. Elif Merve Helvacı

Biography

She was born in Samsun in 1997 and completed her primary and secondary education there. She began her high school education at Aziz Atik Anatolian Teacher High School in 2011 and graduated in 2015. In 2019, she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Ondokuz Mayıs University. She has participated in numerous symposiums and congresses related to her field. In September 2019, she started her master's degree in Neuroscience at the Department of Neuroscience at Ondokuz Mayıs University Graduate School of Health Sciences, completing it in 2023. In 2023, she started her PhD studies at the same department and is currently continuing. She works as a Neuroscience Research Assistant. Her research focuses on nutrition in Multiple Sclerosis, brain-gut connection, gut microbiota, nutrition in migraine, enteral and parenteral nutrition in neurological diseases, etc.