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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 4th, 1985) is a Turkish academic, and currently Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Early Life

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.

Education & Academic Career

She 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 at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign through the College of Engineering there. In August of 2014, she received her PhD degree.

From there, Dagdeviren took her talents to Cambridge and became a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, as well as a postdoctoral research associate at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research of MIT.

Currently, Dagdeviren is an Assistant Professor at MIT. As a faculty member, she directs her own research group, called Conformable Decoders at the MIT Media Lab. 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.

Projects & Publications


Achievements

She developed a non-battery-operated artificial cardiac pacemaker (PZT MEH). In this pacemaker, the principle of piezoelectricity is used, i.e., crystals, which produce electricity when subjected to pressure. She also worked on a device to test the risk of skin cancer.

She is the first Turkish scientist to be elected as Junior Fellow of Harvard. In 2015, she was listed at Forbes 30 Under 30.

Personal

In an interview, she 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).

References

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