Göksu aims to bridge research activities in multidisciplinary teams from chemistry to microbiology to understand how these chemicals affect microbiome composition and function, and whether they induce similar effects in these very diverse microbiomes. Exposure conditions will be maintained at realistic concentrations and both single and multiple additives will be tested.

Göksu received her PhD in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology (Dresden University of Technology, Germany), where her research focused on the environmental hazard assessment of heterocyclic polyaromatic hydrocarbons in the aquatic compartment, investigating their biodegradation, bioaccumulation, acute and chronic toxicity.