Onur Parlak

About me

Onur Parlak earned his PhD in Bioelectronics from Linköping University in 2015. He then received Wallenberg Fellowship and joined Alberto Salleo’s Lab at Stanford University for postdoctoral research focusing on wearable bioelectronics. Subsequently, he turned back to Sweden and joined the Karolinska Institutet to translate his engineering skills in medical settings. Since 2019, he is leading biosensor and bioelectronic research in newly established AIMES - Centre for the Advancement of Integrated Medical and Engineering Science in Karolinska Institutet where he specializes in personalized diagnostics and digital medicine.

Research description

• Wearable Bioelectronics
• Electrochemical Biosensors for Infectious Diseases
• Point-of-care Diagnostics
• Biomaterials
• Electron Microscopy

Teaching portfolio

2012-2016, A Teaching assistant in Biosensor Technology (graduate)” and “Introduction of Biosensor Technology (undergraduate)” courses, Linköping University, Sweden. 

 

Education

October 2018 – current, Wallenberg Research Fellow, Neuroscience Department, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

2016 – 2018, Postdoctoral Researcher, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA

2012 – 2015, PhD in Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, Linköping University, Sweden

 

Academic honours, awards and prizes

2015, Wallenberg Research Fellow

2011, Research Internship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore