Zeynep Cumhur ÇAMLIBEL-ACAR graduated from Boğaziçi University English Language Education Department in 1995. She completed her MA degree in 1998 at the same university and department. She studied for her PhD degree between 1999 and 2005 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed it with her dissertation entitled "Case Studies of Turkish Children’s Literacy and Oral Language Development in English as a Second Language".
She has been working at Marmara University, Atatürk Faculty of Education, English Language Education Department since 2005, and is an Assistant Professor. She served as the Head of Department between 2015 and 2018. Her research interest and expertise areas are Second Language Acquisition, Teaching Foreign Languages to Children, Foreign Language Skills, and Language Teacher Training.