Filiz Yesilkoy
Credentials: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: filiz.yesilkoy@wisc.edu
Address:
1550 Engineering Dr.
Engineering Centers Building
Office 2156
Madison, WI 53706
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- Education
- BS, Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Electrical Engineering; MS, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland, Electrical Engineering/Nanotechnology; PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Electrical Engineering/Nanophotonics; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Microbiosystems; Postdoctoral Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , Lausanne, Nanophotonic Biosensors
- Research Areas
- Biophysical Chemistry, Personalized Medicine, Spectroscopy Microscopy Imaging
Developing new bioanalytical methods using nanophotonic tools
From early-stage fundamental research to everyday clinical practice, sensors that can specifically and accurately quantify analytes from biosamples are essential analytical tools in the biomedical sciences. In medicine, for example, biomarker profiling for prognostics and diagnostics is rapidly becoming more important with the ever-growing discoveries of disease-indicating biomarkers.
In our multidisciplinary group, we conduct basic, applied, and translational research at the cross-sections of photonics, nanotechnology and biomedical sciences towards the development of novel instruments that will impact next-generation healthcare practice and foundational biomedical research. We benefit from a variety of disciplines, including physical, chemical, material, data and life sciences, to i) engineer optical biochemical sensors, molecular identification and imaging systems, ii) enhance the analytical performance of state-of-the-art instruments, and iii) develop field-deployable and cost-effective tools for applications including personalized medicine and global health.