Prof. Dr. Müge YURTSEVER KILIÇGÜN was born in Istanbul in 1977. She completed her secondary education at Terakki Foundation Şişli Terakki High School. In 1999, she earned her bachelor’s degree from Hacettepe University, Department of Child Development and Education. Between 2000 and 2011, she worked as a lecturer and program coordinator at the Prof. Dr. Ayla Oktay Application Unit within the Faculty of Education at Marmara University.
In 2002, she obtained her master’s degree in science with a thesis entitled “The Effect of a Native Language Education Program on the Vocabulary Development of Five- and Six-Year-Old Children.” She completed her Ph.D. in 2009 in the Department of Preschool Education at Marmara University with a dissertation titled “The Development of the Parental Attitude Scale for Children's Rights and the Examination of Parents’ Attitudes toward Children’s Rights in Terms of Different Variables.”
In 2011, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Child Development Program at the Vocational School of Health Services, Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University. In 2012, she joined the Department of Preschool Education within the Faculty of Education at the same university, where she served as Head of Department until 2018. She was awarded the title of Associate Professor in the field of Early Childhood Education in 2020 and promoted to Professor in 2025.
Prof. Dr. Yurtsever Kılıçgün is currently a faculty member in the Department of Preschool Education at Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Faculty of Education. Her academic research primarily focuses on early childhood development, education, and children's rights, as well as studies addressing parents of preschool-aged children.