Dr Alaattinoğlu successfully defended her PhD in law at the European University Institute in 2019. At the University of Turku, she leads the work package 'Trust in Law' in the research project Mobile Futures: Diversity, Trust and Two-way Integration, funded by the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland. Her research has been internationally and nationally published and awarded. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in the Nordic countries and held multiple international visiting fellowships, for example at the University of Melbourne (2018) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (2019). Dr Alaattinoğlu's previous work experience includes working as a legal researcher at the Istanbul-based NGO TOHAV and a lecturer of criminal law at the Police College of Finland.

Dr Alaattinoğlu is a managing editor of Retfærd, the Nordic Journal of Law and Justice.