Dr. Uzunoğlu completed her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Theology at Uludağ University in 2007, spending her final year as an Erasmus exchange student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. While pursuing her MA and PhD at Marmara University, she worked as a researcher at the Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM). Throughout her academic career, she has spent a total of five years furthering her research in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Belgium.

In the 2016–2017 academic year, she was a visiting researcher at the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, where she collaborated with Senior Lecturer Dr. Andrew Roach, a well-known scholar in her field. In 2022, she earned her doctorate at Marmara University under the supervision of Professor Kemal Ataman, with a dissertation titled “A Bourdieusian Perspective on the Conflict Between the Catholic Church and the Cathars in 12th- and 13th-Century Languedoc,” which was published in 2023.

During the 2023–2024 academic year, she served as a postdoctoral researcher on a TÜBİTAK 1001 project. Her research interests include the History of Christianity, Heresiology, Medieval Europe, Living Religions, Cultural Studies, Migration, the Sociology of Everyday Life, Religious Freedom and Discrimination. She specializes in the History of Religions and currently serves as Head of the Department of Religious Sciences.