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Date of birth
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She graduated from Adana ÇEAŞ Anatolian High School.
Canan completed her primary education in İzmit, where she also attended middle school. However, her family was forced to leave the city after the 1999 İzmit earthquake, and she continued her high school education in Adana. -
She started to Hacettepe University.
Hacettepe University is at Ankara. -
She graduated from Hacettepe University Physics Engineering.
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She obtained a Master of Science degree from Sabancı University in Istanbul
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She won a Fulbright scholarship for study in the United States.
With this scholarship, she chose to conduct research in materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where she focused on exploring patterning techniques and creating piezoelectric biomedical systems. -
Illinois Innovation Prize Award
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She received her PhD degree.
Her advisor was John A. Rogers, and the title of her PhD thesis was Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric Materials Flexible/Stretchable/Wearable/Implantable Sensors, Actuators, Mechanical Energy Harvesters, Transducers, Microfabrication. -
She invented Conformal Piezoelectric Mechanical Energy Harvesters (PZT MEH)
In 2014, Dagdeviren and her team developed conformal piezoelectric mechanical energy harvesters, which have been described as "mechanically invisible human dynamos." This project seeks to develop conformal piezoelectric patches integrated into personal garments to extract energy from body movements such as the motion of arms, fingers, and legs. In the future, this work could improve quality life for people and potentially provide environmentally friendly power. -
She got into Forbes 30 Under 30 Science Section.
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She became a Junior Fellow at Harvard University.
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Flexible Piezoelectric Devices for Gastrointestinal Motility Sensing (PZT GI-S)
In 2017, the PZT GI-S project (essentially "a Fitbit for the stomach.") was published. Dagdeviren and fellow collaborators designed an ingestible, flexible piezoelectric device that senses mechanical deformation within the gastric cavity. They demonstrated the capabilities of the sensor in both in vitro and ex vivo simulated gastric models, quantified its key behaviors in the gastrointestinal tract using computational modelling, and validated its functionality in awake and ambulating swine. -
She invented Miniaturized Neural System For Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery (MiNDS)
In 2018, Dagdeviren and her team developed an implantable, remotely controllable, miniaturized neural drug delivery system permitting dynamic adjustment of therapy with pinpoint spatial accuracy. Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered by patients. -
She invented Electronic Textile Conformable Suit (E-TeCS)
In 2020, Dagdeviren and her team created a tailored, electronic textile conformable suit (E-TeCS) to perform large-scale, multi-modal physiological (temperature, heart rate, and respiration) sensing in vivo. The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. -
She invented Conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)
In 2020, Dagdeviren announced the design and pilot testing of an integrated system for decoding facial strains and for predicting facial kinematics, called cFaCES.