I am a new-generation multidisciplinary researcher by training. This is reflected in my publications, where you will see a combination of engineering, materials science, chemistry, and cell biology that converge to solve medical problems.

2017- present: Senior research scientist, Physical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.

2015- present: Associate fellow, Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems.

2014- 2017: Max Planck postdoctoral fellow, Physical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.

2010- 2014: Ph.D. degree, Materials Science and Nanotechnology, National Nanotechnology Research Center, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

2006- 2010: B.Sc. degree, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

Young Academy Member, Turkish Science Academy, 2021.

College for Life Science Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2020.

Günter Petzow Prize, annually awarded (15^th in 2020) to outstanding materials science research, sponsored by the Volkswagen AG, and Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Germany, 2020.

Science as Art Award, Materials Research Society (MRS), Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2018. (Now made a zoom background by MRS !)

Most-read article, in Macromolecular Bioscience, 2018.

Masoumeh Ghaderi Best Talk Prize, at the 5th annual workshop on Micro and Nanotechnologies for medicine: Emerging Frontiers and Applications. Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, USA, 2017.

Associate Fellow, Center for Learning Systems of Max Planck Institute (MPI) - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), January 2015- Present.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Society, September 2014- May 2017.

Best Paper Award by Ultratech Cambridge NanoTech, 2013.

Travel Grant, received from TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), covering the travel cost, conference fee, and a daily allowance for MRS- Spring 2014, San Francisco, US, 2014.

Cover Article in Advanced Functional Materials, 2013.

Lindau Fellow: Selected in a nationwide competition to represent Turkey in the 61st Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting, Lindau, Germany, 2011.

Doctoral Scholarship from TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), including a monthly stipend, September 2010- August 2014.

Postgraduate Full-Merit Scholarship from Bilkent University, including a full tuition waiver, September 2010- August 2014.

Travel Grant, received from TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), covered the travel cost, conference fee, and a daily allowance for MRS- Fall 2011, Boston, US, 2011.

Guest research fellowship, including travel costs, accommodation and a monthly stipend, Marie Curie Research Institute, Oxted, United Kingdom, June- October, 2009.

Undergraduate Full-Merit Scholarship received from TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), including a monthly stipend until graduation.

Undergraduate Full-Merit Scholarship received from Bilkent University upon ranking 517 among over 1.6 million participants in the nationwide university examination. The scholarship includes a full tuition waiver and an additional monthly stipend until graduation.   

Associate Editor, Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics (Springer) (Impact Factor 2.68)

Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Impact factor 5.12), Frontiers in Materials (Impact factor 2.69), and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (Impact factor 3.57).

Guest Editor, Small-Scale Swimmers for Targeted Therapy: Fighting Pathogens and Life-Threatening Diseases (Please click here to find out more on this special issue).

Peer-Review Service for Scientific Journals (35+ top international journals, 120+ peer reviews), including Science Robotics, Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Chemical Society Reviews, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Chemistry of Materials, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Advanced Science, Materials Today, Materials Horizons…

* Please see my detailed peer review service here at my Publons account.

Expert Review Service for Conferences

The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022), Philadelphia, USA, 2022

70th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting, Lindau Alumni Peer Review, 2021

The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), Xi'an, China, 2021

61st Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, New Orleans, USA, 2016

Expert Review Service for Research Funding Organizations

Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, 2021

ETH Zurich Research Commission, Switzerland, 2020

Biotechnology and Biological Research Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK, 2017

1. Invited speaker, Hacettepe University Cancer Institute, Ankara, Turkey, 2021.
2. Invited speaker and panelist, ETH Meets Stuttgart: It's a Small World After All, House of Switzerland, Stuttgart, Germany, 2021.
3. Invited speaker, Tuesday Colloquium, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2020. 
4. Invited speaker, 2020 MPI-IS Summer Colloquium, Stuttgart, Germany, as the recipient of the 15^th Günter Petzow Prize. 
5. Invited speaker, European Robotics Forum, Miniaturized Robotics Workshop, Online, March 2021.
6. Invited lecturer, Berlin Partner for Business and Technology GmbH, Healthcare Industries, MedTech Cluster, Berlin, Germany, January 2021.
7. Invited speaker, Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Los Angeles, US, 2020.
8. Invited speaker, Applications of Micro-Nanorobotics Workshop, IEEE ICRA conference, Paris, France, 2020 (Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I delivered the talk via online participation with Youtube streaming).
9. Oral presentation, 3D printed cell-sized robots for minimally invasive medical interventions and targeted delivery, ACS Spring 2020 National Meeting, Philadelphia, US, 2020 (Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the talk was presented in the poster form).
10. Invited speaker, Cell-Size Robots for Minimally Invasive Medical Interventions and Targeted Delivery, European Robotics Forum, Miniaturized Robotics Workshop, Malaga, Spain, 2020.
11. Invited speaker, Cell-size robots for minimally invasive medical interventions and targeted delivery, Bioengineering Department, Imperial College London, UK, 2020.
12. Invited speaker, Cell-Size Robots for Minimally Invasive Medical Interventions and Targeted Delivery, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2020.
13. Invited speaker, Cell-size robots for minimally invasive medical interventions and targeted delivery, Bilkent University, National Nanotechnology Research Center, Ankara, Turkey, 2019.
14. Oral presentation, Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting , 3D printed biodegradable microrobots for theranostic delivery, Boston, US, 2018.
15. Oral presentation, 5th Annual Workshop on Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Medicine: Emerging Frontiers and Applications, 3D chemical patterning of micromaterials for encoded functionality, Harvard University, Boston, US, 2017.
16. Oral presentation, Gordon Research Seminar, Self-Assembly, and Supramolecular Chemistry, Mussel-inspired dynamic crosslinking of supramolecular nano-networks, Barga, Tuscany, Italy, 2015.
17. Oral presentation, Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, Mussel-inspired adhesive interfaces for biomedical applications, San Francisco, California, US, 2014.
18. Oral presentation, 2nd International Conference on Biological and Biomimetic Adhesives (COST Action Final Meeting), Mussel-inspired adhesive interfaces for biomedical applications, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014.
19. Oral presentation, Global Challenges - Opportunities for Nanotechnology Workshop (organized by CeNS (Munich), Swiss Nanoscience Institute (Basel) and ETH Zurich), Mussel-inspired adhesive interfaces for biomedical applications, Venice, Italy, 2013.
20. Oral presentation, Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Mussel-inspired functionalization of metal surfaces with bioactive self-assembled peptide nanofibers, Boston, US, 2011.