Mehmet Selcuk Arslan received the B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey, in 2000, the M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical sciences and engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2009.
He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2011. Since 2011, he is an Assistant Professor in the department of mechatronics engineering at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.