Born in 1968 at Ceyhan province of Adana. In 1987, entered the Painting-Handiwork Teaching Department at Gazi University and graduated in 1991. Assigned to teacher duty the same year. Gazi University Received Masters degree in 2002 and doctorate degree in 2006. She became an associate professor in 2011 and a professor in 2018. Opened fourteen personal exhibitions ten of which are international. Attended to 300 national and international mixed exhibitions.
33 books, one of which is a double author and the other is an editor and chapter writer; More than 130 scientific articles and papers were published in academic journals and symposium books. His academic publications have received over 1770 citations to date.
In addition, in 2022, 2023 according to the average of the last 5 years, AD Scientific Index was among the top 10,000 in the list, which was prepared based on open profiles in Google Scholar and listed the 800 thousand most cited academics.
He took part in dozens of national and international social responsibility projects. Mercin worked as an executive and as an expert in some of the Projects of UNESCO, UNICEF, EUROPEAN UNION, TUBITAK, BAP and Development Agencies. He was the manager of the founding project of DPÜ TV. He took part in the commissions that updated the Visual Arts Course, Technology and Design Course and Elective Visual Arts Course Curriculum. He also took part in the commission that prepared the books of these programs and served as coordinator. He served in the design centers monitoring committee of the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. He took part as an executive in the official establishment and opening of the Private Ahmet Yakupoğlu Museum in 2023, and in moving the Kütahya Dumlupınar University Museum to its new building and activating it. He served as the chairman of the Visual Arts Education Association for two terms. Mercin, who is married and the father of three children, is currently a lecturer at Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Visual Communication Design Department and has been the Dean of the same Faculty since 2019.

In 2003, she graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Yıldız Vacational School, Photography program. In 2009 she received her bachelor’s degree in Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Traditional Turkish Arts. She received her master’s degree in 2013 and proficiency in arts degree in 2018 in Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Traditional Turkish Arts in the same university. She is teaching as an Associate Professor at Sakarya University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Traditional Turkish Arts and lives in İstanbul.