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Professor Yildiz focuses on laying the scientific groundwork to enable next-generation electrochemical devices for energy conversion and information processing. Her research involves a variety of projects centered on the movement of charged atoms in materials. The scientific insights derived from her research guide the design of novel materials for brain-inspired energy-efficient computing, efficient and durable fuel cells, electrolytic water splitting, and solid-state batteries. Yildiz’s approach combines computational and experimental analyses of electronic structure, defect mobility, and composition, utilizing situ scanning probe X-ray spectroscopy alongside first-principles calculations and novel atomistic simulations. She received her BS in Nuclear Engineering from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1999 and completed her PhD in Nuclear Science Engineering at MIT in 2003. She has worked at Argonne National Laboratory to investigate the structure and chemistry of energy conversion materials using X-ray spectroscopy before returning to MIT to join the faculty in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2007. Her work is published in notable journals including Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Science.