Ülkü Tuncer was born in Adana in 1965.

After graduating from Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine in 1989, Prof. Dr. Ülkü Tuncer completed her specialization training at Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine between 1992 and 1998. She received the title of Associate Professor in 2004 and became a Professor in 2009. Prof. Dr. Ülkü Tuncer was a clinical observer at the University of Pittsburgh in the USA between 1996 and 1997, and received training at the House Ear Institute in the USA in 2003.