Aylin completed her graduate studies under Professor Katherine Mirica at Dartmouth College. As part of the Mirica group lab, she conducted a line of research seeking to understand structure-property relationships between conductive crystalline materials named Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Coordination Networks (CNs). Her dissertation research was an expansion on this topic and involved the design, synthesis, characterization, and performance of conductive coordination networks in chemiresistive sensing. After graduation, she continued her academic career as a Postdoctoral Innovation Scholar (PDIS) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) under the mentorship of Professors Nathan Oldenhuis. At UNH, her postdoctoral research focuses on the use of DNA as a functional material through the design of supramolecular interactions and topology in hydrogels using DNA intercalators. 

At UNH, her research strives to address the challenges in healthcare and environmental remediation of PFAS through innovations in solid-state hybrid materials. Through the design and engineering of self-assembled porous materials, we generate emergent function from strategically selected precursors to target desired structure-properties. Specifically, we generate metal-organic, covalent-organic framework and crystalline coordination networks with tunable structure-properties aimed at addressing generational problems in biomedicine and environmental remediation.