Dr. Sahin holds physics engineering BSc and mechanical engineering MSc degree which both were received from Istanbul Technical University. He completed his Ph.D. degree in the institute of vision and optics at the University of Crete, school of medicine. In this step, he worked on European Union funded project which was called as “OPAL”.

Furthermore, he was a member of the multidisciplinary team of Prof. Ioannis Pallikaris who is also known inventor or father of the LASIK technique. Dr. Sahin and prof. Pallikaris worked on several projects afterwards.

Dr. Sahin also worked in the Dunyagoz Hospital group in several positions such as R&D manager and Biomedical.

His last project was a privately funded project for a product that the IP rights belonged to himself and prof Pallikaris. This project consisted several challenges from securing IP rights to securing funding. Establishing a company, to the creation of production infrastructure. Producing a prototype to certification of the product. In summary, a complete challenge from an idea to the final product.

Currently, Dr. Sahin is working as an assistant professor in the department of mechatronics of Yildiz Technical University and founder of m2 lab. More detailed information can be accessed here.