Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
2021 – present: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany
2017 – 2021: Neuroscience PhD at the Koç University Research Center for Translational Medicine in Istanbul, Turkey
2009 – 2016: Medical Faculty (MD) at the Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey
Awards:
- 2024 – CyberValley Innovation Fellowship
- 2023 – MPG Diversity Excellence Grant
- 2023 – ARVO Global Members Committee
- 2022 – EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2019 – ARVO Developing Country Eye Research Fellowship
- 2019 – EVER Young Investigator Award
- 2018 – TUBITAK National Outstanding Success Scholarship
THE CURRENT PROJECTS
MAGNETICALLY STEERABLE INTRAOCULAR IMPLANTS
Magnetic nanoparticle decorated, light-responsive, and biodegradable hydrogels facilitate targeted, non-invasive drug delivery to the retina.
MICROROBOTIC NEUROSTIMULATION PLATFORM
Cell-sized piezoelectric magnetic Janus microparticles enable cell-specific, high-frequency neural stimulation through low-intensity focused ultrasound.
MICROROBOTICs FOR IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS
Magnetic microrobots help us understand oncological diseases at the single-cell level by using complex magnetic fields and microfluidic manipulation methods.
My RESEARCH TOPICS
- Molecular pathophysiology of ocular diseases
- Nanomaterials for retinal and neural stimulation
- Active particle-based drug delivery
- Biomechanics of central nervous system
- Clinical translation of milli-/microscale robotic devices
NEWs
29 February 2024 – CELLnROLL is awarded with the CyberValley Innovation Fellowship by Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
7 December 2022 – CELLnROLL is funded by MAX!MIZE Startup Phase 1 Funding
FEATURED Articles
You can find the complete list of articles in my CV below:
3D optical coherence tomography scan of the ocular anterior segment
Wang, T., Wu, Y., Yildiz, E., Kanyas, S., & Sitti, M. (2024). Clinical translation of wireless soft robotic medical devices. Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 1-16.
Han, M., Yildiz, E., Bozuyuk, U., Aydin, A., Yu, Y., Bhargava, A., … & Sitti, M. (2024). Janus microparticles-based targeted and spatially-controlled piezoelectric neural stimulation via low-intensity focused ultrasound. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2013.
Bozuyuk, U., Wrede, P., Yildiz, E., & Sitti, M. (2024). Roadmap for Clinical Translation of Mobile Microrobotics. Advanced Materials, 2311462.
Kim, D. W., Wrede, P., Estrada, H., Yildiz, E., Lazovic, J., Bhargava, A., … & Sitti, M. (2024). Hierarchical Nanostructures as Acoustically Manipulatable Multifunctional Agents in Dynamic Fluid Flow. Advanced Materials, 2404514.
Werneck, L., Han, M., Yıldız, E., Keip, M.-A., Sitti, M., & Ortiz, M. (2023). A simple quantitative model of neuromodulation, Part 1: Ion flow through neural ion channels. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 105457.
Zhang, M., Pal, A., Zheng, Z., Gardi, G., Yıldız, E., & Sitti, M. (2023). Hydrogel muscles powering reconfigurable micrometastructures with wide-spectrum programmability. Nature Materials, 1–10.
Bozuyuk, U., Yıldız, E., Han, M., Demir, S. O., & Sitti, M. (2023). Size-Dependent Locomotion Ability of Surface Microrollers on Physiologically Relevant Microtopographical Surfaces. Small, 2303396.
Sridhar, V., Yıldız, E., Rodríguez-Camargo, A., Lyu, X., Yao, L., Wrede, P., … Sitti, M. (2023). Designing Covalent Organic Framework-based Light-driven Microswimmers towards Therapeutic Applications. Advanced Materials, 2301126.
Gulzar, A., Yıldız, E., Kaleli, H. N., Nazeer, M. A., Zibandeh, N., Malik, A. N., … Kizilel, S. (2022). Ruthenium-induced corneal collagen crosslinking under visible light. Acta Biomaterialia, 147, 198–208.
Han, M., Yıldız, E., Kaleli, H. N., Karaz, S., Eren, G. O., Dogru-Yuksel, I. B., … Nizamoglu, S. (2022). Tissue-like optoelectronic neural interface enabled by PEDOT: PSS hydrogel for cardiac and neural stimulation. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 11(8), 2102160.
Karatum, O., Yıldız, E., Kaleli, H. N., Sahin, A., Ulgut, B., & Nizamoglu, S. (2022). RuO2 Supercapacitor Enables Flexible, Safe, and Efficient Optoelectronic Neural Interface. Advanced Functional Materials, 32(31), 2109365.
Yıldız, E., Arslan, A. T., Tas, A. Y., Acer, A. F., Demir, S., Sahin, A., & Barkana, D. E. (2021). Generative adversarial network based automatic segmentation of corneal subbasal nerves on in vivo confocal microscopy images. Translational Vision Science & Technology, 10(6), 33–33.
Zibandeh, N., Yıldız, E., Özer, B., Tas, A. Y., & Sahin, A. (2020). Androgen suppresses hyperosmolarity-induced inflammatory mediators in human corneal epithelial cells. Cornea, 39(7), 886–891.
Yıldız, E., Zibandeh, N., Özer, B., & Sahin, A. (2020). Effects of type 2 diabetes mellitus on gene expressions of mouse meibomian glands. Current Eye Research, 45(1), 72–80.
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