Bilge Yildiz

Research

Professor Bilge Yildiz’s research focuses on laying the scientific groundwork to enable next-generation electrochemical devices for energy conversion and information processing. She and her research-lab colleagues work on a variety of projects, all centered on the movement of charged atoms in materials. The scientific insights derived from her research guide the design of novel materials for brain-inspired energy-efficient computing, efficient and durable fuel cells, electrolytic water splitting, and solid-state batteries. Professor Yildiz’s approach combines computational and experimental analyses of electronic structure, defect mobility, and composition, using an in situ scanning probe and X-ray spectroscopy together with first-principles calculations and novel atomistic simulations.

Biography

Professor Yildiz received a BS in nuclear engineering from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1999 and a PhD in nuclear science and engineering from MIT in 2003. She stayed at MIT to do postdoctoral research in electrochemistry and then moved to Argonne National Laboratory to investigate structure and chemistry of energy conversion materials using X-ray spectroscopy. She returned to MIT to join the faculty of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and DMSE in 2007. Her research has been published in journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Science.