• PhD: Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2024
• MSc: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koc University, Turkey, 2019
• BSc / Double Degree: Chemical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 2017
• BSc: Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 2016             

Nihal Olcay Dogan is a doctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and a Ph.D. candidate at ETH Zurich. Her research aims to improve the capabilities of medical microrobots by introducing a personalized medicine approach. She combines patient-derived biomaterials and patient-derived immune cells with microrobots for targeted medical applications. These personalized microrobots can perform their intended tasks without side effects and undesired immune reactions. Her pioneering work represents a significant advancement toward in vivo medical applications of mobile microrobots by implementing a personalized medicine approach.

Nihal received her master's degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Koc University in Istanbul, where she studied chitosan-based carriers for drug and gene delivery applications to one day battle cancer. In 2019, she received the "Academic Excellence Award" from Koc University for her outstanding academic performance among all graduate students. She earned dual bachelor's degrees in Chemical Engineering and Molecular Biology and Genetics from Istanbul Technical University.