Güleda Engin completed her undergraduate education in 1992 at Dokuz Eylül University in the Department of Environmental Engineering. She received a scholarship from the Ministry of National Education to study abroad. After completing her MPhil thesis at the University of Hertfordshire, Department of Civil Engineering in 1997, she started her PhD studies at Imperial College, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering and received her doctorate degree in 2000.
Güleda Engin, joined the Environmental Engineering Department, Gebze Institute of Technology in March 2001, and promoted as an associate professor in November 2005. In 2012, she has joined the Department of Environmental Engineering at Yildiz Technical University. She involved in many national and international projects including EU supported projects. Her research interests include wastewater treatment using membrane technologies, micropollutant removal, microplastic detection and characterization, and watershed information systems and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Guleda Engin has participated in over 60 national and international conferences and published more than 75 papers in indexed journals. She is currently the Director of the Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Yıldız Technical University.