Ertuğrul Kılıç graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 1994. He received his first PhD degree in 1999 from the Faculty of Medicine in the field of medicine physiology, Fırat Universty (Turkey) and second PhD from Tübingen University (Germany) in Cellular Biology. In the years of 1997-2008, he was at the Max-Planck Institute for experimental Neurology (Cologne, Germany), Department of Neurologies of Tübingen (Germany), Göttingen (Germany) and Zurich (Switzerland). Following, he started to work at the University of Yeditepe, Istanbul until 2013. He started to work at the Medipol University in 2013.

He is a recipient of DAAD (Deutsche Academische Austausch Dienst; Germany), Franco Regli (National Neuroscience Price, Switzerland), JCI-TOYP (The Outstanding Young Person Award in Medicine Innovation, Turkey), EMBO-installation grant (European Molecular Biology Organization), and TUBA-GEBİP (Turkish Academy of Sciences, Turkey) grant and prices. He published more than 100 international research article and they were cited more than 5000. His h-index is 40.

Dr. Kılıç is currently holding a faculty position in Physiology Department of the School of Medicine.