Osman completed his PhD at Massey University in New Zealand on developing fluorescently labelled nucleic acids and extraordinary nucleic acid structures (G-quadruplexes and triplexes). He published in several high impact journals on DNA topology and modifications before completion of his PhD. Soon after he started to work in private sector for developing miRNA detection assays in RTA laboratories in Turkey. He has started working in Izmir University of Economics by 2016 in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Currently he is working on developing bioinformatics tools for several purposes, such as the detection of extraordinary DNA topologies in the genome
