Career

Ebru studied Materials Science and Engineering at Anadolu University (now Eskişehir Technical University, Eskişehir, Turkey) from 2009 to 2013. She then continued her graduate studies at the Center for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (UNAM) at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) and took her MSc degree in 2015. In January 2016, she joined the Applied Nanotribology group at the Institute for Applied Materials-Computational Materials Science (IAM-CMS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as a PhD student and received her PhD degree in September 2019. During her PhD studies in 2018, she was awarded a Research Travel Grant from the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS) at KIT and was a visiting researcher at Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, USA) for 3 months. After receiving her PhD, she continued her academic career as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Giessen from November 2019 to October 2021. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at TU Dresden from November 2021 to October 2024. Since November 2024, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the group 'Single Molecule Machines' at the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at TU Dresden.

Research interests

Her academic studies mainly focus on the tribological properties of nanomaterials investigated through atomic force microscopy (AFM). Recently, she has also started to work in the field of molecular imaging and characterization by low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (low T-STM).