Melik Demirel

Prof. Demirel, the Lloyd and Dorothy Huck Chair in Biomimetic Materials, is a scientist and innovator (National Academy of Innovators-NAI member) with expertise in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and materials science. He also founded a cleantech company for decarbonizing textiles (Tandem Repeat, Inc.) and an AI-infrastructure company for engineering biology (Molecular Composites, Inc.). Over the last two decades, Prof. Demirel and his research team have focused on developing functional nanoscale biomimetic materials. His team designed, fabricated, and synthesized advanced materials by studying the functional transitions of biomimetic systems, both computationally and experimentally. Prof. Demirel's achievements have been recognized through his receipt of a Young Investigator Award from the Department of Defense, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, a Wyss Institute Visiting Scholar appointment at Harvard University, an Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter Junior Fellowship, The Nicho