Sinem Hacıosmanoğlu graduated from İstanbul Technical University, Faculty of Mines, Department of Geological Engineering and she completed her MSc degree in İstanbul Technical University – Graduate School of Science Engineering and Technology, Geological Engineering department with her thesis named “Provenance Study of the Late Bronze Age Cypriote Potteries: White Slip and Monochrome wares from Tell Atchana/The Ancient Alalakh (Hatay) and Archaeometric Approaches” by grant from Istanbul Technical University and Çanakkale On Sekiz Mart University BAP Projects.
Currently, she is working on her PhD thesis in University of Tübingen, Germany, Faculty of Geoscience, Institute for Archeological Science. Her thesis focus on Ancient and Modern Profile of Cilician Clays and archaeometric analysis of Bronze and Iron Age potteries from Sirkeli Höyük (Cilicia, Southeast Anatolia) by grant from Sirkeli Höyük Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Project.
Her research interests are raw material characterization, provenance analysis and production technology of archaeological ceramic and clay resources by using disciplines of mineralogy, petrography, geochemistry and field geology by related analytic analyze methods.