Firat Güder Explained

Dr. rer. nat. Firat Güder
Workplaces:Imperial College London
Alma Mater:Harvard University
University of Freiburg
KU Leuven
Furtwangen University
University of New Brunswick
Thesis Title:Atomlagenabscheidung unterstützt Nanostrukturelle Transformationen
Academic Advisors:George M. Whitesides
Margit Zacharias
Website:www.guderesearch.com

Firat Güder (FRSC) is a bioengineer, scientist, innovator and educator who is a professor of intelligent interfaces at Imperial College London.[1]

Güder is the Chief Engineer and the Principal Investigator of the Güder Research Group which he founded in 2016 in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial.[2] In 2022, Güder was recognized as one of Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World by Junior Chamber International for his contributions to science and technology, education, innovation and humanitarian efforts.

He was a Research Fellow at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.[3] His position at Harvard was funded by the German Research Foundation International Fellowship.[4] At Harvard, he worked with George Whitesides.[5]

Research

Güder and his research group work in the intersection of material science, electronics, computing, biology and chemistry to develop intelligent interfaces to connect complex chemical and biological systems with computers.[6] The overall aim of their research is to develop impactful technologies to address pressing, global challenges related to animal and human health, food systems and environment.[7] Güder is known for his work[8] [9] [10] on low-cost sensors and actuators,[11] wearable and implantable sensors and actuators,[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] software-based chemical sensors,[17] real-time physiological sensors for plants,[18] [19] soft devices,[20] atomic layer deposition,[21] [22] nanomaterials[23] [24] and micro/nanofabrication[25] and the application of artificial intelligence in chemical and biological sensing. His research is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,[26] Wellcome Trust, Royal Society,[27] EPSRC,[28] BBSRC, Horizon Europe,[29] US Army,Innovate UK,[30] EIT Health,[31] German Research Foundation.

Startups and entreprenuership

Güder is known for his translational activities having cofounded four deep tech startups to accelerate the delivery of societal impact of his research: BlakBear Ltd,[32] Unhindr Ltd.,[33] Spyras Ltd (acquired in 2022) and AniML Ltd.[34] Güder is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Movendo Capital which is a Netherlands-based Venture Capital firm managing a ~€500m fund to invest in food technologies.[35]

Education and scientific career

Güder started his high school education at the Sanliurfa Anatolian High School before transferring to Rock Lake High School located in Rock Lake North Dakota, USA as an exchange student to finish off his high school education. Güder received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering (First Division) from the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 2006.[36] After his undergraduate education, he moved to Europe to study toward an MSc degree in microsystem engineering at the Furtwangen University, Germany and KU Leuven (IMEC) in Belgium. In 2008, Güder joined the research group of Margit Zacharias at IMTEK, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg as PhD candidate and finished his degree in 2012. His PhD thesis titled "Atomlagenabscheidung unterstützt Nanostrukturelle Transformationen/Atomic layer deposition assisted nanostructural transformations" primarily focused on the application of atomic layer deposition to synthesize nanomaterials, study high-temperature solid-solid chemical reactions, Kirkendall Effect and fabrication of nano and micro devices.[37] Güder stayed as a subgroup leader until the end of 2013 before moving to Harvard University as a German Research Foundation International Research Fellow to work with Professor George Whitesides in 2014.

Recognition and awards

Outreach

In addition to his scholarly work, Güder and his work is frequently featured in the international mainstream media for public outreach. In 2023, Güder was interviewed by the American innovator Dr. Roman Stolyarov on his hour-long Podcast, Pacemaker where the two discussed Güder's translational work on medical devices, especially wearable robotics.[43] Güder was also featured in several BBC Radio programs in 2019 and 2020 including "Keeping the structure of the internet safe" by BBC Digital Planet,[44] "Global Food Security, Reactive Use-By Labels, Origins of the Potato" by BBC Inside Science [45] and "The Barking Hour" hosted by Jo Good on BBC Radio London.[46] in 2022, Güder was interviewed by Mashable in relation to biometric sensors for dogs which was published in an article online named titled "Biometric dog collars claim to track your dog’s vitals. But are they fur real?".[47] His work on low-cost sensors for detecting food spoilage found particularly wide coverage in the mainstream media which included interviews and news pieces by Reuters, The Times, The Naked Scientists and Der Spiegel (German) among others.[48] [49] [50] [51] In 2023, he was also interviewed by the Turkish science journalist Esra Oz which was published in Independent (Turkish).[52]

Güder and his team are also active in communicating their research on YouTube[53] and social media.[54] [55] The science series created by Phil Coatsworth and published on the group's YouTube channel titled "6 questions with..." aims at showing the human side of scientists to the general public to encourage young minds to study science.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Times Higher Education - University Rankings .
  2. Web site: Home - Dr Firat Guder . 2023-08-07 . www.imperial.ac.uk.
  3. Web site: Alumni . 2023-08-07 . gmwgroup.harvard.edu . en.
  4. Web site: DFG - GEPRIS - Höchst sensitive nanostrukturierte elektrische Sensoren aus Papier: Kostengünstige und schnelle Erkennung von Proteinbiomarkern . 2023-08-07 . gepris.dfg.de.
  5. Web site: The National Medal of Science 50th Anniversary National Science Foundation . 2023-08-07 . www.nsf.gov.
  6. Web site: The web presence of Guder Research Group at Imperial College London – Guder Research Group . 2023-08-07 . en-US.
  7. Web site: Publications – The web presence of Guder Research Group at Imperial College London . 2023-08-07 . en-US.
  8. Barandun . Giandrin . Soprani . Matteo . Naficy . Sina . Grell . Max . Kasimatis . Michael . Chiu . Kwan Lun . Ponzoni . Andrea . Güder . Firat . 2019-06-28 . Cellulose Fibers Enable Near-Zero-Cost Electrical Sensing of Water-Soluble Gases . ACS Sensors . en . 4 . 6 . 1662–1669 . 10.1021/acssensors.9b00555 . 2379-3694 . 7007283 . 31066550.
  9. Barandun . Giandrin . Gonzalez-Macia . Laura . Lee . Hong Seok . Dincer . Can . Güder . Firat . 2022-10-28 . Challenges and Opportunities for Printed Electrical Gas Sensors . ACS Sensors . en . 7 . 10 . 2804–2822 . 10.1021/acssensors.2c01086 . 2379-3694 . 9623589 . 36131601.
  10. Li . Bing . Tan . Haijie . Jenkins . David . Srinivasa Raghavan . Vikram . Rosa . Bruno Gil . Güder . Firat . Pan . Genhua . Yeatman . Eric . Sharp . David J. . 2020-10-30 . Clinical detection of neurodegenerative blood biomarkers using graphene immunosensor . Carbon . en . 168 . 144–162 . 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.06.048 . 0008-6223 . free . 10044/1/81000. 221147443 .
  11. Dincer . Can . Bruch . Richard . Costa‐Rama . Estefanía . Fernández‐Abedul . Maria Teresa . Merkoçi . Arben . Manz . Andreas . Urban . Gerald Anton . Güder . Firat . 2019-05-15 . Disposable Sensors in Diagnostics, Food, and Environmental Monitoring . Advanced Materials . 31 . 30 . en . 1806739 . 10.1002/adma.201806739 . 31094032 . 0935-9648 . free . 10044/1/69878. 155102091 .
  12. Güder . Firat . Ainla . Alar . Redston . Julia . Mosadegh . Bobak . Glavan . Ana . Martin . T. J. . Whitesides . George M. . 2016-05-04 . Paper-Based Electrical Respiration Sensor . Angewandte Chemie International Edition . en . 55 . 19 . 5727–5732 . 10.1002/anie.201511805. 27059088 . 12683302 . 10044/1/54718 . free .
  13. Adeel . Muhammad . Cotur . Yasin . Naik . Atharv . Gonzalez-Macia . Laura . Güder . Firat . November 2022 . Face masks as a platform for wearable sensors . Nature Electronics . en . 5 . 11 . 719–720 . 10.1038/s41928-022-00871-2 . 2520-1131 . free.
  14. Cotur . Yasin . Kasimatis . Michael . Kaisti . Matti . Olenik . Selin . Georgiou . Charis . Güder . Firat . April 2020 . Stretchable Composite Acoustic Transducer for Wearable Monitoring of Vital Signs . Advanced Functional Materials . en . 30 . 16 . 1910288 . 10.1002/adfm.201910288 . 1616-301X . 7116191 . 33071715.
  15. Alshabouna . Fahad . Lee . Hong Seok . Barandun . Giandrin . Tan . Ellasia . Cotur . Yasin . Asfour . Tarek . Gonzalez-Macia . Laura . Coatsworth . Philip . Núnez-Bajo . Estefanía . Kim . Ji-Seon . Güder . Firat . 2022-10-01 . PEDOT:PSS-modified cotton conductive thread for mass manufacturing of textile-based electrical wearable sensors by computerized embroidery . Materials Today . en . 59 . 56–67 . 10.1016/j.mattod.2022.07.015 . 1369-7021 . free . 10044/1/98621.
  16. Ates . H. Ceren . Nguyen . Peter Q. . Gonzalez-Macia . Laura . Morales-Narváez . Eden . Güder . Firat . Collins . James J. . Dincer . Can . November 2022 . End-to-end design of wearable sensors . Nature Reviews Materials . en . 7 . 11 . 887–907 . 10.1038/s41578-022-00460-x . 35910814 . 2058-8437 . 9306444.
  17. Grell . Max . Barandun . Giandrin . Asfour . Tarek . Kasimatis . Michael . Collins . Alex Silva Pinto . Wang . Jieni . Güder . Firat . December 2021 . Point-of-use sensors and machine learning enable low-cost determination of soil nitrogen . Nature Food . en . 2 . 12 . 981–989 . 10.1038/s43016-021-00416-4 . 37118248 . 2662-1355 . free . 10044/1/92945. 245163427 .
  18. Coatsworth . Philip . Gonzalez-Macia . Laura . Collins . Alexander Silva Pinto . Bozkurt . Tolga . Güder . Firat . January 2023 . Continuous monitoring of chemical signals in plants under stress . Nature Reviews Chemistry . en . 7 . 1 . 7–25 . 10.1038/s41570-022-00443-0 . 37117825 . 254620445 . 2397-3358.
  19. Time-Resolved Chemical Phenotyping of Whole Plant Roots with Printed Electrochemical Sensors and Machine Learning . bioRxiv. 2023 . 10.1101/2023.03.09.531921 . Coatsworth . Philip . Cotur . Yasin . Naik . Atharv . Asfour . Tarek . Collins . Alex Silva-Pinto . Olenik . Selin . Gonzalez-Macia . Laura . Bozkurt . Tolga . Chao . Dai-Yin . Güder . Firat . 257535793 .
  20. Kasimatis . Michael . Nunez-Bajo . Estefania . Grell . Max . Cotur . Yasin . Barandun . Giandrin . Kim . Ji-Seon . Güder . Firat . 2019-12-18 . Monolithic Solder-On Nanoporous Si-Cu Contacts for Stretchable Silicone Composite Sensors . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces . en . 11 . 50 . 47577–47586 . 10.1021/acsami.9b17076 . 1944-8244 . 7116211 . 31714731.
  21. Güder . Firat . Yang . Yang . Menzel . Andreas . Wang . Chunyu . Danhof . Julia . Subannajui . Kittitat . Hartel . Andreas . Hiller . Daniel . Kozhummal . Rajeevan . Ramgir . Niranjan S. . Cimalla . Volker . Schwarz . Ulrich T. . Zacharias . Margit . 2012-11-05 . Superior Functionality by Design: Selective Ozone Sensing Realized by Rationally Constructed High-Index ZnO Surfaces . Small . en . 8 . 21 . 3307–3314 . 10.1002/smll.201200841. 22826095 .
  22. Boehler . Christian . Güder . Firat . Kücükbayrak . Umut M. . Zacharias . Margit . Asplund . Maria . 2016-01-21 . A Simple Approach for Molecular Controlled Release based on Atomic Layer Deposition Hybridized Organic-Inorganic Layers . Scientific Reports . en . 6 . 1 . 19574 . 10.1038/srep19574 . 26791399 . 2045-2322 . 4726427.
  23. Güder . Firat . Yang . Yang . Goetze . Silvana . Berger . Andreas . Ramgir . Niranjan . Hesse . Dietrich . Zacharias . Margit . 2010-07-15 . Controlled Positioning of Large Interfacial Nanocavities via Stress-Engineered Void Localization . Small . en . 6 . 15 . 1603–1607 . 10.1002/smll.201000561. 20635347 .
  24. Improved optical properties of ZnO thin films by concurrently introduced interfacial voids during thermal annealing . 2023-08-07 . Applied Physics Letters. 2011 . 10.1063/1.3609321 . Güder . Firat . Yang . Yang . Danhof . Julia . Hartel . Andreas . Schwarz . Ulrich T. . Zacharias . Margit . 99 . 2 .
  25. Güder . Firat . Yang . Yang . Krüger . Michael . Stevens . Gregory B. . Zacharias . Margit . 2010-12-22 . Atomic Layer Deposition on Phase-Shift Lithography Generated Photoresist Patterns for 1D Nanochannel Fabrication . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces . en . 2 . 12 . 3473–3478 . 10.1021/am100592f . 21047101 . 1944-8244.
  26. Web site: Near-Field Communication-Enabled Precision Molecular Diagnostics for Smartphones . 2023-08-07 . gcgh.grandchallenges.org . en.
  27. Web site: Sponsors – The web presence of Guder Research Group at Imperial College London . 2023-08-07 . en-US.
  28. Web site: EPSRC and BBSRC Projects for Firat Guer .
  29. Web site: Cure4Aqua . 2023-08-07 . cure4aqua-project.eu . en.
  30. Web site: 2022-08-23 . Arm-strengthening device to be brought to the clinic with £800k grant Imperial News Imperial College London . 2023-08-07 . Imperial News . en.
  31. Web site: EIT Health supported start-up Unhindr awarded £500,000 . 2023-08-07 . EIT Health . en-US.
  32. Web site: BlakBear - Make Food Efficient . 2023-08-06 . en-US.
  33. Web site: Home . 2023-08-06 . Go unhindered . en.
  34. Web site: Wearables for animals . 2023-08-06 . AniML Tech . en.
  35. Web site: Fırat Güder on LinkedIn: #transformingthefuture #food #tech #vc 26 comments . 2023-08-25 . www.linkedin.com . en.
  36. Web site: Firat – The web presence of Guder Research Group at Imperial College London . 2023-08-07 . en-US.
  37. Güder . Firat . 2012 . Atomlagenabscheidung unterstützt Nanostrukturelle Transformationen . FreiDok Plus - Universitaetsbibliothek Freiburg.
  38. Web site: Nixon . Elizabeth . 2022-06-28 . President's Awards for Excellence in Research . 2023-08-06 . Senior appointments . en-GB.
  39. Web site: 2021-12-11 . Ülkemizin gururu 10 başarılı genç ödüllendirildi . 2023-08-13 . aksam.com.tr . tr.
  40. Web site: Rising Stars in Sensing .
  41. Web site: Recent Awards and Prizes . 2023-08-06 . Imperial College London . en-GB.
  42. Web site: Recognizing exceptional young alumni with Proudly UNB Awards . 2023-08-06 . blogs.unb.ca . en.
  43. Web site: The Pacemaker: Professor Firat Guder: AI Adjustable Prosthetic Liners with Unhindr on Apple Podcasts . 2023-08-07 . Apple Podcasts . en-US.
  44. Web site: BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Keeping the structure of the internet safe . 2023-08-07 . BBC . en-GB.
  45. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, Global Food Security, Reactive Use-By Labels, Origins of the Potato . 2023-08-07 . BBC . en-GB.
  46. Web site: BBC Radio London - The Barking Hour .
  47. Web site: 2022-01-23 . Biometric dog collars claim to track your dog's vitals. But are they fur real? . 2023-08-07 . Mashable . en.
  48. News: 2023-08-07 . Freshness sensor tells you the moment food has gone off . en .
  49. Web site: 2019-02-07 . How do you know if food is past its best? . 2023-08-07 . www.thenakedscientists.com . en-gb.
  50. Web site: Freshness sensors could replace food 'use-by' dates Reuters Video . 2023-08-07 . www.reuters.com . en.
  51. News: Merlot . Julia . 2019-06-05 . Lebensmittelverschwendung: Sensor erkennt schlechte Lebensmittel . de . Der Spiegel . 2023-08-07 . 2195-1349.
  52. Web site: VİDEO Akıllı toprak sensörleri gıdalarımızın tazeliğini gösterecek, toprağın azot miktarını ölçecek . 2023-08-07 . Independent Türkçe . tr.
  53. Web site: Güder Research Group - YouTube . 2023-08-07 . www.youtube.com.
  54. Web site: Guder Research Group on Twitter .
  55. Web site: LinkedIn for Firat Guder .

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