Who we are

Dr. Yalın Kılıç is the Founder and President of Solar Biotec. Dr. Kılıç earned an M.D. from Hacettepe University and a Ph.D. in Medical Biology and Genetics from Dokuz Eylül University. His dissertation work was based on predicting prognosis with expression and methylation patterns of tumor suppressor genes in cancer. His postdoctoral work focused on developing low cost medical devices for molecular diagnosis of diseases.

Dr. Kılıç has spent more than ten years investigating innovative technologies and developing multidisciplinary relationships with scientists, engineers and clinicians. He also works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine in Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine and is the founder and PI of the Molecular Forensic Analysis Laboratory of DEU.

Özlem Kılıç is the chief scientist of the company with her Master of Science degree in Physics. She has 4 years of experience in design and manufacturing of hybrid micro devices and medical instrument systems in projects supported by TÜBİTAK-TEYDEB (Scientific and Research Council of Turkey, Technology and Innovation Funding Programs Directorate).

Arif Umut Çaga Özer, the chief engineer of the company, holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Sciences and has experience in development of cyber-physical-system (CPS) structures for hybrid sensor interfaces. With his 4 years of commitment to SolarBiotec, he has been in charge of the entire hardware architecture in embedded systems and their associated peripheral units, including the ones recruiting electro-chemical and electro-optical sensing interfaces, in many R&D projects supported by TEYDEB.