Durduran, Turgut

November 2015 – ICREA Research Professor; February 2009 - Group Leader – Medical Optics. Dr. Turgut Durduran is a group leader at ICFO. He moved to ICFO from University of Pennsylvania (USA) to found the ICFO-Medical Optics group in 2009, received tenure in 2014 and became an ICREA processor in 2015. Over the years, the group has grown exponentially, currently, with a large number of PhD students, post-docs and engineers collaborating with many hospitals and biomedical institutes world-wide. He has coordinated projects funded by the European Commission, Spanish National Ministries and the National Institutes of Health. He is active in bench-to-bedside translation of diffuse optical technologies including spin-off generation and medical device approvals.