Feray Bakan

Dr. Feray Bakan received her PhD degree in chemical engineering from Ataturk University, Turkey in 2011. She was awarded with post-doctoral fellowship from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK) and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Department of Physics, Sabancı University, Turkey from 2011 to 2013. She is currently working as a research assistant professor at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM), Turkey. Her research interests focus on bioceramic nanomaterials’ synthesis and their health-related applications ranging from bone fracture healing to drug delivery systems. As a principal investigator, Dr. Bakan conducted several national and international projects on biomedical nanomaterials and she has also participated in 3 international projects as a researcher. Recently, she is working on calcium phosphate-based nanoparticles and cyclodextrin-drug inclusion complexes. Dr. Bakan has authored or co-authored 22 SCI/Scopus indexed papers, 6 international conference proceedings, and 1 book chapter published by IntechOpen. She has delivered numerous talks in national and international conferences and is a member of the Turkish Society for Microscopy and the Materials Research Society (MRS).