Havva Ozlem Dursun was born in the southern part of Turkey. She moved to Ankara to study Mathematics at Middle East Technical University (METU) after completing her high school in 2000. She obtained her M.Sc. in Financial Mathematics from the Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM) at METU. Her master thesis contains the empirical and theoretical analysis of “Jump Detection in High Frequency Finance with Power Variation Processes”. She completed her summer internship in Istanbul Stock Exchange. During her studies, she was holding private lessons in “Calculus”, “Differential Equations” and “Linear Algebra” for the freshmen at her university. She was a Ph.D. candidate in Financial Mathematics at METU during 2007-2008. In 2008, she joined Vienna Graduate School of Finance (VGSF) as a Ph. D. student in Finance program.