Ayşe Hande Arslan is a professor of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology. Having trained at the Ankara University Faculty of MedicinE, New York Blood Center, and Hammersmith Hospital virology laboratories, she has been working at the Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases in Ankara for 28 years. Her practice focuses on, among others, transplat infections, community acquired urinary tract infections, and antimicrobial resistance. She has published more than 90 publications in academic journals searched by Web of Science and her H index is 22. Hande is married and the mother of two children and two fur babies.