YCN Committee - Aliya Sharipova

Dr. Aliya Sharipova is a Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden, Germany. She holds an Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Bauman Moscow State Technical University (2013), followed by an M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (2016). During this period, she also was a visiting student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013–2014). In 2019, she completed her Ph.D. in Materials Science at the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her doctoral research, carried out in collaboration with Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, focused on Fe-based nanocomposites for biodegradable orthopedic implants. In 2020, this work was recognized by the European Society for Biomaterials with the Julia Polak Doctoral Award.

She subsequently joined Technion – Israel Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher (2019–2022), where she worked on drug-eluting biodegradable metals, surface functionalization, and advanced biomaterials processing. After receiving the Minerva Fellowship, she moved to Fraunhofer IKTS in 2022 to lead an independent research project on cold sintering of bioceramics. She later obtained the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (2023–2025) to further investigate capabilities of the cold sintering processes in application to biomaterials. Her current research focuses on cold sintering of functional biomaterials, hybrid ceramic-metal systems, drug-eluting bioceramics, and implantable biomedical devices with integrated electrical functionality.