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Canan Dağdeviren

1985 – present

Canan Dağdeviren is a Turkish materials scientist and engineer who works on flexible, conformable electronic devices for medical use. Trained in physics and materials science in Turkey and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she became the first Turkish citizen elected a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. She leads the Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab, where her work includes wearable ultrasound patches and implantable drug-delivery and sensing devices.

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Born in Istanbul, Turkey
1985

She was born in Turkey and spent part of her childhood in Kırıkkale and Istanbul.

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Bachelor's degree in physics engineering at Hacettepe University
2007

She completed undergraduate study in physics engineering in Ankara.

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Master's degree in materials science and engineering at Sabancı University
2009

She carried out graduate research on piezoelectric materials in Istanbul.

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Moved to the United States for doctoral study
c. 2009

She joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to work on flexible electronics in the research group of John A. Rogers.

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Completed PhD in materials science and engineering
2014

Her doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign produced conformable piezoelectric devices, including a mechanical-energy harvester designed to be mounted on the heart.

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Elected a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows
2014

She was the first Turkish citizen chosen for the fellowship and conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the term.

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Named to MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35
2015

She was recognised for work on conformable biomedical devices.

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Joined the MIT Media Lab as a faculty member
2016

She founded the Conformable Decoders group, which develops skin-conformable and implantable sensing devices.

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Published a wearable ultrasound patch for breast tissue imaging
2023

Her group reported a conformable ultrasound breast patch intended to allow repeated at-home scanning between clinical screenings.

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