Dr. Nesrin Horzum studied chemistry at the Pamukkkale University, Turkey, in 2004. She did her M.Sc. and Ph.D. studies in the Department of Chemistry at the Izmir Institute of Technology. She received her doctoral degree in 2013 from the Izmir Institute of Technology, with a thesis about the applications of electrospun nanofibers in filtration processes. During her Ph.D., she joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in 2011 as a visiting scholar, investigating colloid electrospinning and surface functionalization of electrospun nanofibers. In 2014, she joined the group of Prof. Bo Liedberg at the Nanyang Technological University, where she worked at Centre for Biomimetic Sensor Science on paper-based sensing platforms. She is now Associate Professor in the Izmir Kâtip Çelebi University, Turkey. Her current research interests include filtration and sensing applications of polymeric and hybrid nanofibers, as well as smartphone-based sensors for water quality monitoring and glucose detection.