Professional Career                                                                     

• Since 2022: Full Professor (W3), Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University
• Since 2022: Chair of Bioinspired Materials and Biosensor Technologies, Institute of Materials Science, Kiel University
• 2016‒2022: Head of Biosensors and Receptor Development Group, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Maths and Natural Sciences, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
• 2016: Visiting Professor and Scientific Advisor at the National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology, TUBITAK
• 2013‒2016: Faculty Member at Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Cranfield University, UK
• 2012‒2013: Post-doctoral research fellow at Cranfield Biotechnology Centre (UK)
• 2011–2012: Doctoral researcher at the Departments of Microelectronics and Bioengineering, Sabanci University, Turkey
• 2010: Ph.D. student at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
• 2009–2010: Doctoral researcher at Cranfield Health, Analytical Chemistry, Cranfield University, UK

Fellowships, Scholarships and Travel Grants

• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for Experienced Researcher (2016–2018)
• TUBITAK Fellowship for internationally recognized scientist to conduct R&D activities in Turkey (~€16,000 fellowship excluding consumables and research cost) (2016)
• Aptamer Solution Competition 2012, £50,000 grant as the winner of the UK (2012)
• Doctorate full education grant from Sabanci University
• Doctorate fellowship from TUBITAK (2010)
• Doctoral research fellowship from ERASMUS (2009‒2010)
• Travel Grant for young investigator from British Council (2017)
• Travel Grant for young investigator from British Council (2016)
• Travel Grant for selected early career academics from British Council (2014)

Research Awards and Prizes

• Life Outstanding Investigator Award for Women (2022)
• The Aventis Life Sciences Bridge Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Germany (2021) ‒ along with €100.000 prize money
• The World’s Top 2% Scientists List of Stanford University (2022)
• The Sensors Best Paper Award 2022.
• The World’s Top 2% Scientists List of Stanford University (2021)
• The Best Poster Award in 31^st Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors, 26‒29 July 2021
• The Best Poster Award in 3^rd European Biosensor Symposium, 9‒12 March 2021
• The Royal Society of Chemistry Research Award (2019)
• The Best Poster Award in 30^th International Symposium on Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Analysis (Tel-Aviv, Israel) 15-18 September 2019
• The Best Oral Presentation Award and Medal among 255 oral talks in European Advanced Materials Congress, 22‒24 August 2017 (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Certificate of recognition for the plenary speech in 3^rd International Conference and Exhibition on Advances in Chromatography & HPLC Techniques, 13‒14 July 2017 (Berlin, Germany)
• 1^st rank poster award in Female Researcher Network (FeRN) Annual Lecture, 3 June 2015 (Cranfield, UK)
• 3^rd rank poster award in Nanotechnology for Water Treatment, 5^th Dissemination Conference of the Nano4water Cluster, 20-21 January 2015 (Barcelona, Spain)
• 1^st rank poster award in Biosensors 2014 among <600 research works, 24^th Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors, 27-30 May 2014 (Melbourne, Australia)
• 1^st rank poster award in Nano Enabled Systems for Water Treatment, 4^th Dissemination Conference of the Nano4water Cluster, 23-24 April 2014 (Stockholm, Sweden).
• Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2012-present)
• Publication Awards from TUBITAK (2011 and 2012) ‒ca €1000 per year
• Publication Awards from Sabanci University (2011 and 2012) ‒ca €750 per year)
• The Gursel Sonmez Research Award for outstanding Ph.D. researcher and Ph.D. thesis (2012) – Certificate and ca €1000 

Editorship

• Associate Editor of Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research (Elsevier)
• Editorial board member of Biosensors and Bioelectronics (Elsevier)
• Editorial board member of Scientific Reports (Nature)
• Editorial board member of Micromachines (MDPI, Switzerland)
• Editorial board member of Materials (MDPI, Switzerland)
• Expert reviewer for book series of WILEY (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
• Expert reviewer for book series of WILEY-IEEE
• Special issue editor in Materials: “Nanomaterials in Health Care Diagnostics”
• Special issue editor in Micromachines: “Biosensors and MEMS-Based Diagnostic Applications”
• Special issue editor in Biosensors: “Biosensors 2022”
• Special issue editor in Molecules: “Current Emerging Trends of Extraction and Encapsulation in Food”
• Special issue editor in Life: Insights in Nutrition and Agri-Food Science Technology by Use of Smart Algorithm, Machine Learning, Multivariable and Omics Data Analysis

Expert Reviewer for Funding Agengies

• European Union, Horizon 2020
• Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council
• Dutch Research Council (NWO)
• The DAAD PRIME, BMBF & EU Cofund Projects
• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
• French National Research Agency (ANR)

Organization of Scientific Meetings

• Bioanalysis Workshop, 27‒28 November 2017 (Luckenwalde, Germany), Co-organizer
• 3^rd International Conference and Exhibition on Advances in Chromatography & HPLC Techniques, 13‒14 July 2017 (Berlin, Germany). Judge for Poster Presentation Awards
• Committee member of Micromachines International Travel Awards for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers
• Member of scientific committee, 1^st International Congress on Medical Sciences and Biotechnology, 14‒16 October 2019 (Usak, Turkey).
• Member of scientific committee, 2^nd International Congress on Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 11‒14 March 2020 (Antalya, Turkey).
• Member of scientific committee, 2^nd International Congress on Medical Sciences and Biotechnology, 1‒3 October 2020 (Online).
• Member of scientific committee, 3^rd International Congress on Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 22‒26 March 2021 (Online).
• Member of scientific committee, 7^th International Conference on Bio-Sensing Technology, 22‒25 May 2022 (Sitges, Spain)

Selected Invited and Plenary Talks

• “Biomedical applications of in silico designed functional materials”. BIOMED 2022. 25‒27 November 2022, Online. (Plenary speaker)
• “Functional materials in biosensors, surface modification, and bioscience”. Mads Clausen Institute. 3^rd November 2022 (Sønderborg, Denmark). (Invited talk)
• “Biosensor applications of in silico designed functional materials”. Biosensors 2022. 13‒15 October 2022 (Dakhla, Morocco). (Plenary speaker)
• “Functional polymers as synthetic affinity materials for biosensing applications”. International Intelligent Materials Conference. 29 June‒ 1 July 2022 (Kiel, Germany). Plenary speaker)
• “Integrated approaches toward a new generation of MIP biosensors”. Analytica Conference. 21‒24 June 2022 (Munich, Germany). Plenary speaker)
• “Biosensor applications of functional polymers”. Joint International Conference – Functional Materials and Nanotechnologies. 3‒7 July 2022 (Riga, Latvia). (Plenary speaker)
• “High affinity synthetic protein binders obtained voa computationally simulated epitopes for biosensing applications”. 8^th Biomaterials Days. 18‒10 November 2021, Online (Plenary speaker)
• “Biomaterials in sensors, surface modification, and bioscience”. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. 12^th November 2021 (Karlsruhe, Germany). (Invited talk)
• “Electrochemical lab-on-a chip sensing platforms for biological applications”. 1^st  International Conference on Micromachines and Applications. 23 April 2021, Online.  (Plenary speaker)
• “Epitope-mediated dual-template imprints for medical diagnosis”, 2^nd International Congress on Medical Sciences and Biotechnology, 1‒3 October 2020 (Istanbul, Turkey). (Plenary speaker) – decided to be held online.
• “Computationally designed functional materials for biomedical sensing”, “1st International Congress on Medical Sciences and Biotechnology, 14-16 October 2019 (Usak, Turkey). (Keynote speaker)
• “A fully automated lab-on-a chip platform for biological applications”, Lab-on-a-Chip & Microfluidics World Congress 2019 (Coronado Island, San Diego) 7-9 October 2019. (Keynote speaker)
• “Optical sensors for diagnostic applications”, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beersheba, Israel), 23 September 2019.
• “Novel biosensors for pharmaceutical analysis”, 30^th International Symposium on Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Analysis (Tel-Aviv, Israel) 15-18 September 2019. (Keynote speaker)
• “Computational studies in molecular imprinting: Modelling MIPs and targets”, 8^th Graduate Student Symposium on Molecular Imprinting (Berlin, Germany) 28-29 August 2019. (Plenary speaker)
• “Integrated approaches toward high-affinity artificial protein binders obtained via computationally simulated epitopes for biosensing”, 6^th International Conference on Bio-Sensing Technology (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), 16-19 June 2019. (Keynote speaker)
• “NanoMIP applications in clinical diagnostics”, YaYiC 2019: International Conference "the Yins and Yangs in Cancer" (Berlin, Germany) 24-25 May 2019. (Keynote speaker)
• “NanoMIP biosensors for molecular recognition of micropollutants”. University of Ghent (Ghent, Belgium), 27 August 2018.
• “Microencapsulation of polyphenols for functional food development”, International Conference on Food & Beverages (Tokyo, Japan) 6-7 August 2018. (Keynote speaker)
• “Intelligent polymeric nanostructures for medical applications”, University College London (London, UK), 20 July 2018.
• “Biomedical sensors for lung cancer detection using computationally simulated biomarkers and artificial receptors”, Imperial College London (London, UK), 19 July 2018.
• “Antibody biosensors”. University of Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany), 8 February 2018.
• “Biosensor applications of virus nanoMIPs”. Bioanalysis Conference (Luckenwalde, Germany) 27-28 November 2017. (Keynote speaker).
• “Electrochemical sensing of computationally simulated disease biomarkers using epitope imprinting”, European Advanced Materials Congress (EAMC-2017), (Stockholm, Sweden) 22-24 August 2017.
• “Rational design and development of bioselective affinity materials for pharmaceutical applications”, 3^rd International Conference and Exhibition on Advances in Chromatography & HPLC Techniques, (Berlin, Germany) 13-14 July 2017.
• “Drug monitoring using integrated approaches”,3^rd International Conference and Exhibition on Advances in Chromatography & HPLC Techniques, (Berlin, Germany) 13-14 July 2017. (Plenary speaker)
• “The impact of computational simulations on biomarker-based disease detection and artificial receptor development”, Bioanalysis Conference (Luckenwalde, Germany) 17-18 November 2016.
• “Biosensor Technology in Medical Diagnostic, Food Safety Analysis and Environmental Toxicology“, Electrochemical nucleic acid based biosensors/ microfluidic devices for healthcare applications (Bath, UK) 5-8 September 2016.
• “Computationally designed nano-MIPs for biosensor and membrane applications”, TUBITAK-BILGEM, (Kocaeli, Turkey), 11 February 2016.
• “NanoMIP-based optical sensor for pharmaceuticals monitoring of drinking water, RME 2015 Conference Series- Food Feed Water Analysis innovations and breakthroughs (Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands), 20-22 April 2015.
• “Waterborne viruses: affinity-based system for detection and removal”, RME 2015 Conference Series- Food Feed Water Analysis innovations and breakthroughs (Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands), 20-22 April 2015.
• “Molecular imprinting technology for membrane applications of pharmaceuticals”, Nanotechnology for Water Treatment, 5^th Dissemination Conference of the Nano4water Cluster (Barcelona, Spain), 20-21 January 2015.
• “In silico designed nano-MIPs for biosensor and membrane applications”, Bilkent University, (Ankara, Turkey), 26 December 2014.
• “Detection and removal of pharmaceuticals using biomimetic based biosensor for health care applications”. New Horizons in Biocatalysis for Biomaterials (Izmir, Turkey) 8-12 April 2014.