Meryem Yıldız Ayvaz graduated from Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Nursing in 2012. She worked as an intensive care nurse at Private Memorial Antalya Hospital between 2012 and 2013, and as a research assistant at Istanbul University Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Department of Internal Medicine Nursing, between 2013 and 2017. She completed her Master’s degree in Internal Medicine Nursing at Istanbul University Institute of Health Sciences in 2016, and her PhD in Internal Medicine Nursing at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Graduate School of Education in 2020. Since January 2023, she has been working as an Assistant Professor at Koç University Faculty of Nursing. She is married and a mother of two children.

Meryem Yıldız Ayvaz
Koç University, Türkiye