Şafak TAVUKÇUOĞLU, born in 1972 in Ankara, completed Ankara Atatürk High School in 1989. He graduated from Biology department of Ankara University Faculty of Science in 1993. He worked at IVF laboratory of Ankara Sevgi Hospital between 1993 and 1996. In 1997, he continued his research at the Akita University Faculty of Medicine’s embryology and andrology laboratories. He participated in numerous scientific studies on IVF that were published in international journals. He worked at Singapore National University Hospital’s IVF laboratory. He also participated in a number of training programs in the United States of America and Germany. He worked at IVF laboratory of Metropolitan Florence Nightingale and IVF laboratory of Hattat Hospital between 1997 and 2000. He completed his Master’s Degree Program at Istanbul Science University’s Histology Embryology Department. In 2012, he participated in a six-month joint study at the IVF center of Schleswig Holstein University Campus Lüebeck. the Embryology laboratory responsible at FertiJin Supportive Reproduction Techniques Centre since 2000.  He has continued his Works and been