Gips Schüle Young Scientist Award goes to Dr. H. Ceren Ateş
Freiburg, 30/06/2025
In her doctoral thesis, engineer Dr H. Ceren Ateş developed a biosensor platform that can improve and personalise the use of antibiotics. She has now been awarded a Gips Schüle Research Award for her work.
Dr.-Ing. H. Ceren Ateş is receiving the 2025 Gips Schüle Young Scientist Award in the category of technical sciences for her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg. The engineer’s research focuses on how to optimise and accelerate the use of antibiotics in the face of increasing bacterial resistance. To this end, she has developed a biosensor platform. The award will be presented in Tübingen on 10 July 2025 and is endowed with 10,000 euros.
Results after just thirty minutes
Ateş developed her innovative method at the Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies (FIT) and at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg. Current methods for determining the optimal dose of antibiotics are often slow, cumbersome and require repeated blood sampling. Ateş has developed a biosensor platform that combines synthetic biology, microfluidics and artificial intelligence to monitor the concentration of antibiotics in saliva, urine and breath. This new technology delivers results in just 30 minutes, enabling antibiotics to be adjusted more quickly and dosages to be personalised. Ateş is currently further developing her process at the Technical University of Munich.