Sahika Inal is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering with co-affiliations in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering programs at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She has a B.Sc. degree in Textile Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (Turkey, 2007), an M.Sc. in Polymer Science, and a Ph.D. in Experimental Physics, both from the University of Potsdam (Germany, 2013). She completed her postdoctoral training at the Center of Microelectronics of Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (France, 2016). Her expertise is in polymer science and bioelectronic devices, particularly in the photophysics of conjugated polymers and the design of biosensors and actuators. Since 2016, Inal lab at KAUST exploits the functionalities of organic electronic materials, investigates ionic/electronic charge transport, and designs electronic devices that record/stimulate biological signals. Sahika is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has received recognitions, including ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award 2022, Beilby Medal and Prize 2022, and Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship (2022). She is the author of 110+ publications, and her work has been cited more than 11000 times.

Twitter: @InalSahika

Group website: https://bioel.kaust.edu.sa/