Author

Öyküm Kaplan Arabacı

After studying at Istanbul Technical University and Boğaziçi University, Öyküm Kaplan Arabacı completed her doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. A molecular biologist and neuroscientist, she continued her academic career as a visiting researcher at the University of Oslo. She distilled many years of scientific work into her first book, The Universe Within — an unmatched introduction to the mesmerising world seen through a microscope, translating complex scientific truths into the language of everyday life.