Fatma AKCADAG graduated in 1988 from the Ankara University Sciences Faculty, Department of Chemical Engineering. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Ankara University Sciences Faculty, Department of Chemical Engineering. She worked as a research assistant between 1989 and 1997 in the Department of Chemical Engineering of Ankara University and as an R&D Engineer between 1997 and 1998 at Super Film Industry and Trade Inc. She has been working at TÜBİTAK UME as a senior researcher since 1998.

She contributed to the establishment of the Chemistry Group Laboratories in TÜBİTAK UME. She had been worked as head of the Chemistry Group Laboratories in between 2000-2001 and 2006-2009. She involved in the establishment of quality management system at TÜBİTAK UME between 1999 and 2018.  In this context, she contributed to the establishment, execution and certification of the quality management system in compliance with the requirements of ISO/IEC 170125 and ISO 17034 standards at TÜBİTAK UME.

She gave training for technical requirement of ISO/IEC 17043 at national and international level organized by Turkish Accreditation Agency-TURKAK from 2014 to 2016. She has been given training on method validation and estimation of measurement uncertainty in chemical measurements and technical requirement of ISO/IEC 17043 training services at national and international level organized by TÜBİTAK UME. She has been organizing proficiency testing since 2000.