About
Meryem Ayşe Yücel is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Technical Director of the Neurophotonics Center, Boston University. She is an active contributor to the evolving field of fNIRS research and has directed and performed numerous fNIRS human imaging studies and developed various fNIRS data analysis techniques. Her current interests revolve around Neuroscience in the Everyday World, Open Science, and the Inclusivity and Equity in Research.
Biography
Positions Held in the Past
- 2022– Research Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
- 2018–2022 Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
- 2015–2018 Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiology and Assistant in Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts General Hospital
- 2010–2015 Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Professional Services
- 2022- Chair, SfNIRS Standards Committee
- 2021- co-Chair, SfNIRS Standards Committee
- 2021- Institutional Review Board Member, Boston University
- 2020- Technical Director, Boston University Neurophotonics Center
- 2018- Board of Directors, Society for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- 2017-2021 Member, Communications Committee, SfNIRS
Awards
- 2022 Society of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Community Award in Recognition of the Outstanding Service to the Community
- 2022 Light of the Lab Award for “Functional Inclusiveness:)
- 2022 Fellowships for Visiting Scientists, TUBITAK
- 2021 Winner of the Engineering Approaches to Responsible Neural Interface Design, Facebook
- 2016 Finalist for the Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Early Investigator Award
- 2013 Britton Chance Symposium Travel Award
- 2006-2010 TUBITAK – The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Integrated Doctoral Fellowship
Editorial
- 2023- Guest Associate Editor, Imaging Neuroscience, Special Issue: Optical and Acoustic Neuroimaging
- 2023- Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, Special Issue: Advances in Mobile Optical Brain Activity Monitoring
- 2022- Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Brain Imaging Methods
- 2021- Associate Editor, Neurophotonics, SPIE
- 2021- Editorial Board Member, Nature Scientific Data
- 2021 Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
- 2019 Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers, Special Issue, fNIRS in Neuroscience and its Emerging Applications