Prof. Dr. Oya Tagit FHNW, Switzerland

Oya Tagit studied biology and biotechnology at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Subsequently she received her PhD from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands with research in the area of nanomaterials science and engineering.
Subsequently she held several... read moreacademic and industrial positions in the Netherlands at the University of Twente, the Radboud University Medical Center (Nijmegen) and MSD-Merck (Oss), in France at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris), Universitè Paris Sud, and in Ireland at Magnostics (Dublin). During her career she made significant contribution in numerous areas at the interface of materials chemistry, nanotechnology, biology and medicine. Oya Tagit brings broad expertise to our school in the design, synthesis, colloidal and functional characterization of nanoparticles, their production and their clinical applications in drug delivery and diagnostics.