I completed my Ph.D. in Visual Sciences at the University of Murcia (Spain) where I worked with Prof. Manuel Vidal-Sanz, a leading scientist in the field of axonal regeneration and neurodegenerative diseases of the retina. During my Ph.D., I conducted experiments in histology and electrophysiology of the rodent retina and had the opportunity to visit research laboratories both in the USA and Canada. After obtaining my Ph.D. degree, I pursued postdoctoral training at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix (Arizona) with Prof. Stephen L. Macknik with whom I studied vascular deficits in neurodegenerative diseases including age-related macular degeneration and epilepsy. During that time, I was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship by the European Commission to carry out independent research. With this funding support, I studied the role of pericytes – a cell located around capillaries – during retinal ischemia/reperfusion. Here, I started my own research line in neurosciences at the Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry Institute at Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey) with Prof. Turgay Dalkara, an important neuroscientist who showed for the first time that pericytes constrict brain capillaries during brain ischemia. Since 2015, I am a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Adriana Di Polo at the University of Montreal where I have continued the study of retinal pericytes and how they synchronize light-evoked capillary response in normal and pathological conditions including ischemia/reperfusion and glaucoma.