Merivan ŞAŞMAZ was born in Malatya and completed her primary, secondary and high school education in Malatya. In 2003, she started in the Physics Department in Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Inonu University and graduated in 2007. In 2008, she became a research assistant in Adiyaman University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Physics Department. In the same year, she started her masters' education in the department of Physics in Fırat University (FU) and completed her thesis titled 'CuAlMn Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy Production, Investigation of Thermal and Magnetic Properties' in 2010. Subsequently, in February 2010, FU Institute of Science and Physics has started her doctorate education. Between July-August 2010 at Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris) and in 2012-2013 with YÖK Scholarship and Basque Center for Materials, Applications & Nanostructures (BC Materials) scholarship at Electrical and Electronics Department, the Basque Country University (Spain), has found in studies. She completed her second master's education in the department of New Materials on Magnetoelastic Properties of Magnetic and Metamagnetic Shape Memory Alloys at University of The Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. Experimental training in University of Balearic Islands, Spain and University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, where she went as part of Erasmus staff training after Paris and Bilbao, She's had so many device experiences lsuch as Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID), Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer (FTIR), Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), arc melter, induction furnace. In 2015, FU she completed her PhD in the field of Nanotechnology on "Production and Characterization of Graphene-Doped Nanocomposite Materials" at the Institute of Science and Physics. With the projects supported by the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service and TÜBİTAK, between September 2018 and January 2020, she worked as a researcher in the Faculty of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Currently, she works as an associate professor in Adiyaman University Faculty of Engineering department of Electrical and Electronics Eng.and Dr. ŞAŞMAZ speaks English and Spanish.

Scientific areas of interest: Electronic and magnetic properties of new materials, magnetic and metamagnetic smart alloys, biocompatible shape memory alloys, nanotechnology, production and characterization of nanocomposites, Li-ion batteries, shell ferromagnetism