After finishing her BA in English Literature at Bosphorus University, Ebru worked as an arts correspondent for a local newspaper, and then had a career as a managing editor for a monthly travel magazine: Gezi / National Geographic Traveler.
A native of Istanbul and a licensed guide since 2002, she has a broad range of knowledge, and is extremely interested in history of art, architecture and religions with special emphasis on Greek Orthodoxy and Byzantine history.
Ebru attended an MA program in History of Religions at the School of Theology at Marmara University, and has an MA degree in Art History at Istanbul University specializing in Christian iconography. Apart from guiding, she gives seminars on Early Christianity, Origins of Christmas, Varangian Guards, the Chora Church and its Iconography etc. She loves being a student and has been studying ancient Greek and Ottoman script.
Currently she is doing a PhD in Art History at Istanbul University specializing in Byzantine art and Orthodox iconography.