Mehmet Can Altın completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Middle East Technical University in 2020. He received his master's degree from the Department of Economics at the same university in 2025. In his master's thesis titled "Spatial Knowledge Spillovers and Productivity: A Firm-Level Analysis of Productivity Interactions on Türkiye," he examined firm-level spatial productivity interactions using microdata from the Ministry of Industry and Technology. He is currently pursuing his PhD studies at the METU Department of Economics.

Between 2021 and 2022, Altın worked as an urban planner in the preparation process of the Area Plan of the Cappadocia Area Presidency. From 2022 to 2025, he worked as a freelance urban planner on various projects. In 2024-2025, he served as a researcher at the METU Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications (GÜNAM), where he conducted value chain analysis and stakeholder research on building-integrated photovoltaic technologies.

Altın's research interests include evolutionary economics, economic geography, spatial econometrics, firm networks, global value chains, and industrial policy. Since December 2025, he has been working as a researcher at TEPAV.