Dr. Pulhan received her BA in History from Bosphorus University, MA in Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology from Istanbul University, and MA and PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology from Yale University. She was a Martin Harrison post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University. She was among the founding faculty members of the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University and has also taught at Bilkent and Bilgi Universities. In her career she has combined teaching and research with archaeological fieldwork and museum- and heritage-consultancy. She has been affiliated with the British Institute at Ankara as a member of the Council of Management, as the director of the Europa Nostra award-winning SARAT Project, as the coordinator of the SARAA Project in Turkey and Lebanon, and as an honorary research fellow. In 2013–2015 she was co-curator in the establishment of the Erimtan Archaeology and Art Museum in Ankara. Between 2009–2019 she conducted salvage excavations at Gre Amer Höyük, Batman as part of the Ilisu Dam/River Tigris Project. Her ANAMED project aims to understand the character of the Middle Bronze Age settlement of Gre Amer in terms of its social complexity and its wider connections in North Mesopotamia.