Ozlem Yesil-Celiktas is a Chemical Engineer from Ankara University, with an M.Sc from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and a PhD in biotechnology from Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. She has six years of industrial experience with international secondments in Munich, Stockholm and Wageningen. She is working as a faculty member at Bioengineering Department, Faculty of Engineering of Ege University since October, 2007. She had been a visiting Assoc. Prof. Dr. at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School during 2017. Her research interests can be summarized under three pillars; 1) biomimetic microsystems including organ-on-chip platforms, 2) drug delivery systems,  3) life science applications of supercritical fluids