SU graduate Canan Dağdeviren named “the innovator of the year”

Material Science and Engineering 2009 graduate Canan Dağdeviren was among the winners of the “Innovators Under 35 Turkey” by MIT Technology Review.  Canan was also nameed “the innovator of the year” among all winners.

'MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35' is an annual list of young technology experts who find solutions to the fundamental problems we face today, and change the world.

Innovators Under 35 Turkey promotes young, creative and bold Turkish innovators with technology-based projects that have the potential to shape the future.

Canan Dağdeviren is coming under limelight in the United States with her successful work

Canan Dağdeviren is working on flexible and bendable electronic devices that can be implanted into the body or on the skin.  Her work extends across physics, electronics, chemistry, materials, mechanics and medicine.

Dağdeviren was the top of the list in her field to be entitled to a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship, which was given for the first time in Turkey in 2009, and was admitted to the Material Science and Engineering Department of The University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign.