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⚫ '''Canan Dağdeviren''' (born May 4, 1985) is a Turkish academic and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently holds the LG Career Development Professorship in Media Arts and Sciences. As a faculty member, she directs her own Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu/mission.html}}</ref> The group works at the intersection of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering. They create mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the target object of interest for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other applications.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu/mission.html|website=Conformable Decoders|accessdate=10 February 2020}}</ref> Dagdeviren believes that vital information from nature and the human body is “coded” in various forms of physical patterns. Her research focuses on the creation of conformable decoders that can “decode” these patterns into beneficial signals and/or energy.<ref name=":1" />
'''Canan Dağdeviren''' (born May 4th, 1985) is a ], and currently Assistant Professor at the ] (MIT), in ], USA.


==Early Life== ==Early Life==
Canan Dağdeviren was born in ], Turkey on May 4th, 1985. She is the oldest of three, and has two younger brothers. She completed her primary education in ], where she also attended middle school. However, her family was forced to leave the city after the ], and she continued her high school education in ].
⚫ Canan Dağdeviren (born May 4, 1985) is a Turkish academic and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently holds the LG Career Development Professorship in Media Arts and Sciences. As a faculty member, she directs her own Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu/mission.html}}</ref>The group works at the intersection of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering. They create mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the target object of interest for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other applications.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu/mission.html |website=Conformable Decoders |accessdate=10 February 2020}}</ref> Dagdeviren believes that vital information from nature and the human body is “coded” in various forms of physical patterns. Her research focuses on the creation of conformable decoders that can “decode” these patterns into beneficial signals and/or energy.

Dagdeviren was drawn to scientific exploration from a very young age. In an interview with Discover Magazine, she recalls being fascinated by smashing rocks together and producing sparks, saying “I loved the idea that you deform this material and create sparks -- it was very exciting.”<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/how-flexible-sensors-might-begin-to-read-the-bodys-language|title=How Flexible Sensors Might Begin to Read the Body's Language|website=Discover Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> Another source of inspiration came from a book that her father gave her on the life of Marie Curie. She quickly became infatuated not just with Curie’s work, but also with the research conducted by her husband Pierre Curie, who Dagdeviren considers her “scientific love.” Pierre and his brother Jacques first described piezoelectricity in 1880,<ref name=":2" /> a concept that would later serve as the driving force behind many of Dagdeviren’s own projects and applications.

Finally, at the heart of her work is Dagdeviren’s own family. An early source of inspiration was learning about her grandfather, who died of heart failure at age 28. Even as a young girl, she promised herself that someday she would create technology that would decode and monitor similar health issues to honor his memory.<ref name=":2" />


==Education & Academic Career== ==Education & Academic Career==
She studied ] at the ] in ], graduating in 2007. She obtained a Master of Science degree from ] in Istanbul, and won a ] for study in the United States. With this scholarship, she chose to conduct research in ] at the ]<ref name="m1" /> through the College of Engineering there. In August of 2014, she received her ] degree. Canan Dagdeviren studied ] at the ] in ], graduating in 2007. She obtained a ] degree from ] in Istanbul, and won a ] for study in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tr.usembassy.gov/canan_dagdeviren_story_2015/|title=Canan Dagdeviren - An Inspiring Story|date=2015-01-17|website=U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Turkey|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> With this scholarship, she chose to conduct research in ] and engineering at the ], where she focused on exploring patterning techniques and creating piezoelectric biomedical systems. Here, one of the projects that she developed was a conformable, piezoelectric, energy harvester that converts mechanical energy from internal organ movements into electric energy to power medical devices. It is soft and flexible and conforms to the heart as well as other soft tissues.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sciencemag.org/prize/scilifelab/canan-dagdeviren|title=Canan Dagdeviren|date=2016-12-01|website=Science {{!}} AAAS|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> This technology could extend the battery life of implanted electronics or eliminate the need for battery replacement, sparing patients from repeated operations and the risk of surgical complications. In August of 2014 she received her ] degree.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.milliyet.com.tr/gundem/canan-dagdeviren-kimdir-2392696|title=Canan Dağdeviren kimdir?|website=Milliyet|language=tr|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> Her advisor was ], and the title of her PhD thesis was Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric Materials Flexible/Stretchable/Wearable/Implantable Sensors, Actuators, Mechanical Energy Harvesters, Transducers, Microfabrication.<ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Ferroelectric/piezoelectric flexible mechanical energy harvesters and stretchable epidermal sensors for medical applications|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2142/73068|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|date=2015-01-21|language=en|last=Dagdeviren, Canan}}</ref>


From there, Dagdeviren took her talents to Cambridge and became a ] in the ], as well as a ] at the ] of MIT.<ref name="Bio" /> Dagdeviren then went to ] to become a ] in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University -- the first Turkish scientist in the history of the Harvard Society to do so -- as well as a postdoctoral research associate at MIT’s ].<ref name=":0" /> Her postdoctoral advisor was MIT Institute Professor Robert S. Langer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ki.mit.edu/people/faculty/langer|title=The Koch Institute: Robert S. Langer|website=ki.mit.edu|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>


Currently, Dagdeviren is an Assistant Professor at MIT. She teaches a course on conformable devices every semester,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu/courses.html|title=Conformable Decoders|website=conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> and also serves as a freshman advisor.
Currently, Dagdeviren is an ] at MIT. As a faculty member, she directs her own research group, called at the ] The group is a culmination of her background in materials science and engineering; they create mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the target object for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other applications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.media.mit.edu/people/canand/overview/|title=Person Overview ‹ Canan Dagdeviren|website=MIT Media Lab|access-date=2020-01-22}}</ref>

Recently, she was invited to present to the World.Minds community at the annual invitation-only symposium in Zurich, Switzerland. Her most recent research and achievements are summarized in her World.Minds talk.


== Projects & Publications == == Projects & Publications ==
<br />
==Achievements==
She developed a non-battery-operated ] (PZT MEH). In this pacemaker, the principle of ] is used, i.e., crystals, which produce electricity when subjected to pressure. She also worked on a device to test the risk of ].<ref name="mt"/>


=== YellowBox ===
She is the first Turkish scientist to be elected as Junior Fellow of Harvard.<ref name=SEV/> In 2015, she was listed at ].<ref name="f" />

The YellowBox is a cleanroom used by Conformable Decoders at the MIT Media Lab, which Dagdeviren designed and constructed from the ground up in 2017<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/meet-yellowbox/|title=Meet the YellowBox|last=Dagdeviren|first=Canan|website=MIT Media Lab|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>. When she was a PhD student, she promised herself that if she ever had the opportunity to build her own space, it would be physically transparent so that anyone passing by would have the ability to observe, take notes, and learn from her without needing any special permissions<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/launching-a-lab-7b02413072ad|title=Launching a lab|last=Lab|first=MIT Media|date=2017-04-27|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>. This inclusivity is part of what makes YellowBox such a unique scientific environment.

=== PZT MEH ===

The PZT MEH project has been described as “mechanically invisible human dynamos.”<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu/project1.html|title=Conformable Decoders|website=conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>This project seeks to develop conformal piezoelectric patches integrated into personal garments to extract energy from body movements such as the motion of arms, fingers, and legs. In the future, this work could improve quality life for people and potentially provide environmentally friendly power. Since these energy harvesters are powered by human motion instead of battery power, the need for replacements and high risk/high cost surgical procedures to change depleted batteries could be eliminated.<ref name=":3" />

=== MiNDS ===

The MiNDS project introduced the development of an implantable, remotely controllable, miniaturized neural drug-delivery system permitting dynamic adjustment of therapy with pinpoint spatial accuracy. This device can chemically modulate local neuronal activity in small-animal (rodent) and large-animal (nonhuman primate) models, while simultaneously allowing the recording of neural activity to enable feedback control.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu/project4.html|title=Conformable Decoders|website=conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>

=== PZT GI-S ===

The PZT GI-S project is essentially “a Fitbit for the stomach."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/29/mit-capsule-body-listening-devices/|title=Our bodies talk to us — and these implantable devices can help listen|date=2018-06-29|website=STAT|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> Dagdeviren and fellow collaborators have designed an ingestible, flexible piezoelectric device that senses mechanical deformation within the gastric cavity. They demonstrated the capabilities of the sensor in both in vitro and ex vivo simulated gastric models, quantified its key behaviors in the gastrointestinal tract using computational modelling, and validated its functionality in awake and ambulating swine. The proof-of-concept device may lead to the development of ingestible piezoelectric devices that might safely sense mechanical variations and harvest mechanical energy inside the gastrointestinal tract for the diagnosis and treatment of motility disorders, as well as for monitoring ingestion in bariatric applications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu/project3.html|title=Conformable Decoders|website=conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>

=== The Bees of Science ===

In June of 2019, Dagdeviren blended media, art, and science to create an exhibition which was featured in the lobby of the Media Lab for 8 months. The exhibition displayed her students’ work, and was titled The Bees of Science. In a blog post, she explained “Like bees, my students work at the intersection of nature, art, and science, drawing on both their experiences in diverse fields of science and engineering and also their diverse cultural backgrounds, much as the bees draw nectar from a host of different flowers. They then apply their minds, hearts, and hands to create unique micro- and nano-scale, mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems for human health monitoring—their scientific “honey.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/canan-dagdeviren-reflects-on-exhibiting-student-work/|title=Exhibiting at the Media Lab: Canan Dagdeviren reflects on exhibiting student work|last=Dagdeviren|first=Canan|website=MIT Media Lab|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>

==Awards & Honors==
In 2014, Dagdeviren became the first Turkish scientist to be elected as a Junior Fellow of Harvard.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailysabah.com/life/2016/04/19/harvards-first-turkish-junior-follow-invited-to-join-mit-faculty|title=Harvard's first Turkish junior follow invited to join MIT faculty|website=DailySabah|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>

In 2015, MIT Technology Review named her among the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" (inventor category),<ref>{{Citation|title=Canan Dagdeviren - The Innovators Under 35 EmTech 2015 MIT Technology Review|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi82tShB18s|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> and Forbes magazine selected her as one of the "Top 30 Under 30 in Science."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/pictures/ggik45ekh/canan-dagdeviren-29/|title=Canan Dagdeviren, 29|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> The following year she received many honors, including being named a Gifted Citizen by Ciudad de las Ideas of Puebla, Mexico,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/285416|title=Gifted Citizen: los emprendedores sociales que cambian las reglas del juego|last=Lagos|first=Anna|date=2016-11-18|website=Entrepreneur|language=es|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> and the Spotlight Health Scholar by Aspen Institute. She placed first in the Medical Innovation Category of Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) by Junior Chamber International (JCI),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jci.cc/en/news/4335|title=JCI|website=jci.cc|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> and received the 2017 Innovation and Technology Delegate of the American Academy of Achievement Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://conformabledecoders.media.mit.edu/files/PDF%20Articles/AcademyofAchievement_Dagdeviren.pdf|title=Academy of Achievement - Dr. Canan Dagdeviren|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> Dagdeviren was also awarded the Science and Sci Life Prize for Young Scientists in Translational Medicine Category by Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab, and attended the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scienceprize.scilifelab.se/winners-young-scientist-prize/2016-2/|title=2016 Young Scientist Prize Winners|date=2017-12-07|website=The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>

Since beginning her current position at the MIT Media Lab, Dagdeviren and her students published a paper “Towards personalized medicine: the evolution of imperceptible healthcare technologies,” published in the November 2018 issue of Foresight, a journal of future studies, strategic thinking, and policy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-08-2018-0075/full/html#loginreload|title=Towards personalized medicine: the evolution of imperceptible health-care technologies|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> The paper was selected by the journal’s editorial board as an Outstanding Paper for the 2019 Emerald Literati Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/outstanding-paper-in-the-2019-emerald-literati-awards/|title=Outstanding Paper in the 2019 Emerald Literati Awards|last=Dagdeviren|first=Canan|website=MIT Media Lab|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>

In 2019, Dagdeviren was awarded the Kadir Has University Promising Scientist Award,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/the-promising-scientist-award-of-the-2019-kadir-has-awards-is-given-to-dr-canan-dagdeviren/|title=Canan Dagdeviren receives 2019 Kadir Has "Promising Scientist" Award|last=Dagdeviren|first=Canan|website=MIT Media Lab|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> and recognized in Fortune Turkey’s “40 Under 40.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fortuneturkey.com/40-yas-alti-40%e2%80%b2-listesi-2019|title=’40 Yaş Altı 40′ Listesi - 2019|website=Fortune Turkey|language=tr|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> She was also named as one of the United States’s “87 brightest young engineers”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nae.edu/211980/Innovative-Young-Engineers-Selected-to-Participate-in-NAEs-2019-US-Frontiers-of-Engineering-Symposium|title=Innovative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE’s 2019 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium|website=NAE Website|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and took part in the NAE’s 25th annual US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.media.mit.edu/events/dr-canan-dagdeviren-selected-nae-usfoe/|title=Dr. Canan Dagdeviren selected to participate in NAE's 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium|last=Dagdeviren|first=Canan|website=MIT Media Lab|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>

== Media ==
Dagdeviren’s work has been featured in many media outlets, including ''The Washington Post, IEEE Spectrum,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/fitbit-for-the-stomach|title=Full Page Reload|website=IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> Forbes,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/hilarybrueck/2017/03/21/conformabledecodersmitdagdeviren/|title=Google Translate Buttons For Health Care Are Coming|last=Brueck|first=Hilary|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> Discover Magazine,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/how-flexible-sensors-might-begin-to-read-the-bodys-language|title=How Flexible Sensors Might Begin to Read the Body's Language|website=Discover Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> MedGadget,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.medgadget.com/2019/07/decoding-physical-patterns-of-our-bodies-via-conformable-devices-interview-with-canan-dagdeviren-mit.html|title=Decoding Physical Patterns of Our Bodies via Conformable Devices: Interview with MIT's Canan Dagdeviren {{!}}|date=2019-07-24|website=Medgadget|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> Stat News,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/29/mit-capsule-body-listening-devices/|title=Our bodies talk to us — and these implantable devices can help listen|date=2018-06-29|website=STAT|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> The Daily Mail,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5905113/MIT-team-creates-Fitbit-Stomach-uses-body-organs-charge-itself.html|title=MIT team creates 'a Fitbit for the Stomach,' uses organs to charge|last=Wright|first=Matthew|date=2018-07-01|website=Mail Online|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> Nature Materials,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lacour|first=Stéphanie P.|date=2015-07|title=Skin health monitoring|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat4328|journal=Nature Materials|language=en|volume=14|issue=7|pages=659–660|doi=10.1038/nmat4328|issn=1476-4660}}</ref> AP News''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/9760860d3d9a42598e09c4c3e6783122|title=Tiny implant opens way to deliver drugs deep into the brain|date=2018-01-24|website=AP NEWS|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> and more.

=== UN Talk ===

In addition to her work in the materials science and engineering fields, Dagdeviren seeks to inspire an upcoming generation of young scientists, specifically young women pursuing STEM careers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wiley.com/network/archive/women-in-engineering-an-interview-with-canan-dagdeviren|title=Women in Engineering: An Interview with Canan Dagdeviren|website=www.wiley.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> She uses social media as a tool to connect with young minds across the globe, specifically through her Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts.

In February of 2018, she was invited to speak at the Women in Science in Diplomacy for Sustaining Peace and Development event as part of the celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the United Nations.<ref>{{Citation|title=Dr. Canan Dağdeviren gives a talk at the United Nations|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEPvy0C2eVQ|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>

Since 2015, she has participated in numerous Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) panels across the globe and in various outreach activities that target women.

=== Blog ===

Dagdeviren enjoys sharing her personal take on leading a research group, teaching, and working in YellowBox through perspective posts on her .


== Personal == == Personal ==
In an interview, she said that she was inspired for science by two books; a book on the life of the twice ]-winning Polish-French physicist and chemist ] (1867–1934) and Turkish theoretical physicist ]’s (1926–2007) book of his memories (''Anılar ve Düşünceler'').<ref name="SEV" /> In an interview, Dagdeviren said that she was inspired for science by two books; a book on the life of the twice ]-winning Polish-French physicist and chemist ] (1867–1934) and Turkish theoretical physicist ]’s (1926–2007) book of his memories (Anılar ve Düşünceler).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.teachabroadturkey.com/|title=Teaching in Turkey - A Morning with Dr. Canan Dağdeviren - From TAC - A Morning with Dr. Canan Dağdeviren - A Morning with Dr....|website=teachabroadturkey.com|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> She also finds great inspiration in Rumi, a 13th century Turkish poet who practiced Sufism -- a movement to understand the universe under the lenses of sensation, beauty and love as well as care about integrity, dignity and sincerity.<ref>{{Citation|title=Canan Dağdeviren: Conformable Decoders (2019 WORLD.MINDS Annual Symposium)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWoqAgsQBsg|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref>


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Canan Dağdeviren
Born (1985-05-04) 4 May 1985 (age 39)
Istanbul, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
EducationPhysics Engineering, Material Science
Alma mater
OccupationAssistant Professor

Canan Dağdeviren (born May 4, 1985) is a Turkish academic and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently holds the LG Career Development Professorship in Media Arts and Sciences. As a faculty member, she directs her own Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab. The group works at the intersection of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering. They create mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the target object of interest for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other applications. Dagdeviren believes that vital information from nature and the human body is “coded” in various forms of physical patterns. Her research focuses on the creation of conformable decoders that can “decode” these patterns into beneficial signals and/or energy.

Early Life

Canan Dağdeviren was born in Istanbul, Turkey on May 4th, 1985. She is the oldest of three, and has two younger brothers. She completed her primary education in İzmit, where she also attended middle school. However, her family was forced to leave the city after the 1999 İzmit earthquake, and she continued her high school education in Adana.

Dagdeviren was drawn to scientific exploration from a very young age. In an interview with Discover Magazine, she recalls being fascinated by smashing rocks together and producing sparks, saying “I loved the idea that you deform this material and create sparks -- it was very exciting.” Another source of inspiration came from a book that her father gave her on the life of Marie Curie. She quickly became infatuated not just with Curie’s work, but also with the research conducted by her husband Pierre Curie, who Dagdeviren considers her “scientific love.” Pierre and his brother Jacques first described piezoelectricity in 1880, a concept that would later serve as the driving force behind many of Dagdeviren’s own projects and applications.

Finally, at the heart of her work is Dagdeviren’s own family. An early source of inspiration was learning about her grandfather, who died of heart failure at age 28. Even as a young girl, she promised herself that someday she would create technology that would decode and monitor similar health issues to honor his memory.

Education & Academic Career

Canan Dagdeviren studied Physics Engineering at the Hacettepe University in Ankara, graduating in 2007. She obtained a Master of Science degree from Sabancı University in Istanbul, and won a Fulbright scholarship for study in the United States. With this scholarship, she chose to conduct research in materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where she focused on exploring patterning techniques and creating piezoelectric biomedical systems. Here, one of the projects that she developed was a conformable, piezoelectric, energy harvester that converts mechanical energy from internal organ movements into electric energy to power medical devices. It is soft and flexible and conforms to the heart as well as other soft tissues. This technology could extend the battery life of implanted electronics or eliminate the need for battery replacement, sparing patients from repeated operations and the risk of surgical complications. In August of 2014 she received her PhD degree. Her advisor was John A. Rogers, and the title of her PhD thesis was Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric Materials Flexible/Stretchable/Wearable/Implantable Sensors, Actuators, Mechanical Energy Harvesters, Transducers, Microfabrication.

Dagdeviren then went to Cambridge, MA to become a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University -- the first Turkish scientist in the history of the Harvard Society to do so -- as well as a postdoctoral research associate at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Her postdoctoral advisor was MIT Institute Professor Robert S. Langer.

Currently, Dagdeviren is an Assistant Professor at MIT. She teaches a course on conformable devices every semester, and also serves as a freshman advisor.

Recently, she was invited to present to the World.Minds community at the annual invitation-only symposium in Zurich, Switzerland. Her most recent research and achievements are summarized in her World.Minds talk.

Projects & Publications

YellowBox

The YellowBox is a cleanroom used by Conformable Decoders at the MIT Media Lab, which Dagdeviren designed and constructed from the ground up in 2017. When she was a PhD student, she promised herself that if she ever had the opportunity to build her own space, it would be physically transparent so that anyone passing by would have the ability to observe, take notes, and learn from her without needing any special permissions. This inclusivity is part of what makes YellowBox such a unique scientific environment.

PZT MEH

The PZT MEH project has been described as “mechanically invisible human dynamos.”This project seeks to develop conformal piezoelectric patches integrated into personal garments to extract energy from body movements such as the motion of arms, fingers, and legs. In the future, this work could improve quality life for people and potentially provide environmentally friendly power. Since these energy harvesters are powered by human motion instead of battery power, the need for replacements and high risk/high cost surgical procedures to change depleted batteries could be eliminated.

MiNDS

The MiNDS project introduced the development of an implantable, remotely controllable, miniaturized neural drug-delivery system permitting dynamic adjustment of therapy with pinpoint spatial accuracy. This device can chemically modulate local neuronal activity in small-animal (rodent) and large-animal (nonhuman primate) models, while simultaneously allowing the recording of neural activity to enable feedback control.

PZT GI-S

The PZT GI-S project is essentially “a Fitbit for the stomach." Dagdeviren and fellow collaborators have designed an ingestible, flexible piezoelectric device that senses mechanical deformation within the gastric cavity. They demonstrated the capabilities of the sensor in both in vitro and ex vivo simulated gastric models, quantified its key behaviors in the gastrointestinal tract using computational modelling, and validated its functionality in awake and ambulating swine. The proof-of-concept device may lead to the development of ingestible piezoelectric devices that might safely sense mechanical variations and harvest mechanical energy inside the gastrointestinal tract for the diagnosis and treatment of motility disorders, as well as for monitoring ingestion in bariatric applications.

The Bees of Science

In June of 2019, Dagdeviren blended media, art, and science to create an exhibition which was featured in the lobby of the Media Lab for 8 months. The exhibition displayed her students’ work, and was titled The Bees of Science. In a blog post, she explained “Like bees, my students work at the intersection of nature, art, and science, drawing on both their experiences in diverse fields of science and engineering and also their diverse cultural backgrounds, much as the bees draw nectar from a host of different flowers. They then apply their minds, hearts, and hands to create unique micro- and nano-scale, mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems for human health monitoring—their scientific “honey.”

Awards & Honors

In 2014, Dagdeviren became the first Turkish scientist to be elected as a Junior Fellow of Harvard.

In 2015, MIT Technology Review named her among the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" (inventor category), and Forbes magazine selected her as one of the "Top 30 Under 30 in Science." The following year she received many honors, including being named a Gifted Citizen by Ciudad de las Ideas of Puebla, Mexico, and the Spotlight Health Scholar by Aspen Institute. She placed first in the Medical Innovation Category of Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) by Junior Chamber International (JCI), and received the 2017 Innovation and Technology Delegate of the American Academy of Achievement Award. Dagdeviren was also awarded the Science and Sci Life Prize for Young Scientists in Translational Medicine Category by Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab, and attended the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

Since beginning her current position at the MIT Media Lab, Dagdeviren and her students published a paper “Towards personalized medicine: the evolution of imperceptible healthcare technologies,” published in the November 2018 issue of Foresight, a journal of future studies, strategic thinking, and policy. The paper was selected by the journal’s editorial board as an Outstanding Paper for the 2019 Emerald Literati Awards.

In 2019, Dagdeviren was awarded the Kadir Has University Promising Scientist Award, and recognized in Fortune Turkey’s “40 Under 40.” She was also named as one of the United States’s “87 brightest young engineers” by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and took part in the NAE’s 25th annual US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium.

Media

Dagdeviren’s work has been featured in many media outlets, including The Washington Post, IEEE Spectrum, Forbes, Discover Magazine, MedGadget, Stat News, The Daily Mail, Nature Materials, AP News and more.

UN Talk

In addition to her work in the materials science and engineering fields, Dagdeviren seeks to inspire an upcoming generation of young scientists, specifically young women pursuing STEM careers. She uses social media as a tool to connect with young minds across the globe, specifically through her Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts.

In February of 2018, she was invited to speak at the Women in Science in Diplomacy for Sustaining Peace and Development event as part of the celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the United Nations.

Since 2015, she has participated in numerous Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) panels across the globe and in various outreach activities that target women.

Blog

Dagdeviren enjoys sharing her personal take on leading a research group, teaching, and working in YellowBox through perspective posts on her blog.

Personal

In an interview, Dagdeviren said that she was inspired for science by two books; a book on the life of the twice Nobel Prize-winning Polish-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) and Turkish theoretical physicist Erdal İnönü’s (1926–2007) book of his memories (Anılar ve Düşünceler). She also finds great inspiration in Rumi, a 13th century Turkish poet who practiced Sufism -- a movement to understand the universe under the lenses of sensation, beauty and love as well as care about integrity, dignity and sincerity.

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