He was born in the Ünye district of Ordu. He completed his primary education in Ünye and finished his secondary education in Samsun in 2001. He completed his undergraduate studies in 2005 at Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography. He completed a non-thesis master’s degree at Sakarya University in 2006. He earned his thesis-based master’s degree in 2009 at Fatih University with a thesis entitled “Valency in Uzbek Turkish.” He completed his doctoral studies in 2015 at Istanbul University with a dissertation entitled “Molla Muhammed Timur’s Chagatai Translation of Kalila and Dimna.”

He took part in the cataloguing of rare works at the Yenikapı Mevlevi Lodge in 2011. He served on the organizing committee of, and presented a paper at, the International Symposium on the Western Ambassadors of the Turkish Language, organized in cooperation with the Turkish Language Association. Between 2010 and 2012, he worked as a lecturer teaching Turkish to foreigners. He prepared the curriculum for Turkish language courses within the UZEM (Distance Education Center). He taught Turkish language and Ottoman Turkish courses at various municipalities and universities. In 2016, he was appointed as a faculty member (Assistant Professor).

Within the scope of the Bridges of Civilization from Past to Present Project, he served as a visiting faculty member at Ahmet Yesevi University in Kazakhstan and Manas University in Kyrgyzstan. His scholarly articles have been published in various national and international journals, and he has presented papers at numerous national and international symposiums. He has served as a referee for the journal Türkiyat Mecmuası and as an expert juror in various short story and fiction competitions.

Çimen has research interests in Turkey Turkish, Contemporary Turkic Dialects and Literatures, Linguistics, Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language, and Ottoman Turkish. He is proficient in English, Uzbek, Uyghur, Chagatai, Ottoman Turkish, Kazakh, and has basic knowledge of Arabic, Russian, and Persian.