Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülşah Batdal Karaduman, completed her undergraduate studies at the Hasan Ali Yucel Faculty of Education, Istanbul University, majoring in Elementary Teacher Education and Elementary Mathematics Teaching. She earned her master's degree from the Department of Elementary Teacher Training at Istanbul University’s Institute of Educational Sciences and completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Gifted Education at the same university.

Her academic work has focused on mathematics education, differentiated instruction, creativity, and spatial ability. She has presented at numerous national and international conferences on topics such as elementary education, mathematics instruction, creativity, special education, gifted and talented education, and high-order thinking skills. In addition to authoring books, book chapters, and scholarly articles in both national and international journals, she has been actively involved in various research projects.

She currently serves as a section editor for HAYEF: Journal of Education and is a member of both the European Council for High Ability (ECHA) and the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC). She serves as the National Representative of ECHA in Turkey. From 2021 to 2022, she was a visiting professor in the Department of Mathematics Education at the University of Wyoming. Between 2022 and 2023, she held a visiting scholar position in the Department of Educational Psychology at Baylor University. She is currently an Associate Professor at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, supervises theses, and continues her research on differentiated instruction and creativity in gifted education.