Dr. Eyüp Cücük was born in Gaziantep in 1989. He completed his undergraduate education in the Department of History at Hacettepe University Faculty of Letters in 2011. In the same year, he started his first master's degree in the Department of Modern History at Gaziantep University, which he completed in 2017. He then completed his PhD program in the same department in 2020. During this period, he also completed his second master's degree in the Department of Educational Programs and Instruction at the Gaziantep University Institute of Educational Sciences, which he started in 2013 and completed in 2015. Between 2014-2021, he worked as a Research Assistant (50-d) at the Gaziantep University Institute of Educational Sciences. Supported by the TÜBİTAK Domestic Post-Doctoral Research Grant Program, he continued his work as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Hasan Ali Yücel Faculty of Education between 2021-2023.

Dr. Cücük's research interests include history of education, history of educational writing, educational sciences, history of educational policies, modernization in education, and philosophical, social and historical foundations of education. He has published numerous national and international papers, articles, books and book chapters in these fields. He has also been involved in many national and international research projects as a researcher, assistant staff, and fellow.