She works at Claremont McKenna College, where she is Crown Professor of Mathematics and George R. Roberts Fellow.
[1] Aksoy studied mathematics and physics at Ankara University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1976.
She earned a master's degree in mathematics at Middle East Technical University in 1978, with a thesis Subspaces of Nuclear Fréchet Spaces supervised by Tosun Terzioğlu.
She moved to the United States in 1978 for additional graduate study at the University of Michigan, and eventually became a US citizen.
[2] With Mohamed Amine Khamsi, Aksoy is the author of two books: In 2006 the Southern California–Nevada Section of the Mathematical Association of America gave Aksoy their annual Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.