Duygu Ozcelik Yilmaz

Duygu Ozcelik Yilmaz

PhD fellow

Duygu Ozcelik is a chemist focusing on Microalgae Biotechnology for functional food and food ingredients. She obtained her MSc. degree in Environmental Sciences from Bogazici University, Turkey in 2020. She worked as a research assistant in the Environmental Sciences Institute of Bogazici University (2017-2022). 

Research Interests

  • Extraction, quantification, and characterization of functional food ingredients from microlgae.
  • Analysis of nutritional composition of novel microalgae species.
  • Investigation of growth kinetics and pollutant removal efficiency of microalgae in different culture medium including dairy industry side-streams.

PhD Project

‘Two-in-one: Valorising dairy side-streams to produce food ingredients using microalgae’.

Funded by: Independent research Fund Denmark (DFF). 

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