Görkem Er received his Bachelor degree in Psychology at Koç University in 2014. He then moved to University of Sussex for his Cognitive Neuroscience MSc, where he investigated how multisensory relative timing is represented in the human brain using a sensory adaptation paradigm.

He was enrolled in Neuroscience Master program at Bilkent University, investigating the role of contrast and size in motion processing in visual areas, using functional magnetic resonance imaging technique (fMRI).