Prof. Dr. Zeynep Altintas is a full professor and Chair of
Bioinspired Materials and Biosensor Technologies at Kiel University, Germany.
She has been the Head of the Biosensors and Receptor Development Group at the
Technical University of Berlin since 2016. She completed her Ph.D. in
biomedical sensors at the age of 25 with the outstanding Ph.D. student award.
Following a one-year post-doctorate position at Cranfield Biotechnology Centre, she
continued her academic career as a faculty member of Biomedical Engineering at
Cranfield University (the UK) until 2016. She is the author of >170
publications. She has supervised >40 Ph.D. and M.Sc. students and mentored 14
post-doctoral fellows.
