Harun Torlakcik

Harun Torlakcik was born in Oberviechtach, Germany in 1992. He received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from ETH Zürich in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

During his studies, he developed an interest in biomedical applications. For instance, he completed his bachelor´s thesis in the scope of the Zurich Heart project, where he modeled the dynamic behavior of a novel ventricular pressure sensor concept at the Micro- and Nanosystems Group. Before continuing with his master’s degree, he pursued an internship at Sonova AG as a R&D intern in the Advanced Materials & Technologies division, where he examined the performance and lifetime of an extended wear hearing aid under natural conditions in a self-developed test bench. During his master’s, Harun further specialized in micro- and nanosystems in combination with biomedical engineering. He conducted his semester project at the MSRL on the simulation of the shape dependent drug delivery properties of magnetoelectric nanostructures, which resulted in co-authored publications. He continued his research at the MSRL where his master thesis was focused on the fabrication and in-vitro examination of smart magnetoelectric inverse opal scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications. In September 2018 he joined MSRL as a PhD student. His current research includes the development and control of magnetically guided micro- and nanorobots for biomedical applications, including targeted drug delivery, wound healing and cell differentiation.