Prof. Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yanik

Prof. Yanik received his BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics at MIT in 1999, MS in Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in 2000, and finished PhD in Applied Physics at Stanford in 2006. He completed a short postdoctoral work in Stanford Bioengineering and Neurosurgery with Stephen Quake and Theo Palmer. He subsequently served as Assistant and later as Associate Professor till he received tenure at MIT (2006-2014). He is currently full professor at ETH Zurich at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, as institute co-director and director of the masters program. His studies are recognized by NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (youngest recipient), ERC Consolidator Award, Bridge Discovery Award, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, NIH Transformative Research Award, Packard Award in Engineering and Science, Alfred Sloan Award in Neuroscience, NIH Eureka Award, NSF Career Award, Silicon Valley’s Innovator's Challenge Award, Technology Review Magazine’s “World’s top 35 innovators under age 35”, Junior Chamber International’s “Outstanding Young Person", among others. His work has been highlighted by The Economist, BBC, Popular Mechanics, Nature, Guardian, ABC, Boston Globe, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, The Scientist, National Geographic, Blick, and others.

Yanik Lab Website: https://neurotechnology.ethz.ch/