Morteza Teymoori

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Microsystems for Biomedical Imaging Laboratory at IMTEK, University of Freiburg. I build microwave photonic systems for magnetic resonance imaging: optical links that carry both power and the MR signal over fibre, photonic integrated circuits that process those signals that make fully optical MRI coil arrays possible. Our latest work, Light Coils, demonstrates MRI with fully optical data and power transmission.

My background sits at the intersection of electromagnetics and photonics. I received my Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) in 2024 with a thesis on Metamaterials and Their Applications in Biomedical Engineering (advised by Prof. Arda Deniz Yalçınkaya), which received the Necmi Tanyolaç Award for the best Ph.D. thesis. During that time I designed RF metasurfaces for 3T and 7T MRI, microwave and THz metamaterial sensors, and MEMS-on-fibre sensors, and worked as an R&D engineer at GlakoLens on a smart contact lens that went through first-in-human pilot studies.

I like to take projects end to end: from numerical design (CST, COMSOL, Lumerical) through cleanroom fabrication to experimental validation on the bench and in the scanner.

Research interests: photonic integrated circuits · RF photonics and power-over-fibre · MRI coil hardware · electromagnetic metamaterials · MEMS and microfabrication.