Prof. Nüket SİVRİ

Biography

Prof. Dr. Nüket Sivri is a Professor in Environmental Engineering Department at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, where she has been a faculty member since 2004. During 1991-2004 she was a research assistant at Faculty of Marine Sciences in Karadeniz Technical University, which has a research institute for environmental-marine studies in Black Sea. 

She received her PhD in relation between coastal area- marine-river studies from Karadeniz Technical University in 1999. Her current research interests lie in coastal area impact assessment on marine ecosystem at regional and global scales. In recent years, she has focused on antibacterial resistance, water sanitation, and the development of novel technologies for promoting microalgal growth. She was a visitor researcher between 2012-2014 at Plymouth Marine Lab and studied with Dr. Mike ALLEN about molecular virology methods in natural waters and microbial methods for identification coccolithovirus (Ehux) in natural waters, especially in the sea. In addition, her team studies mainly on understanding the role of microorganisms in the coastal area using genomic approaches and developing fast acute toxicity methods used to determine the toxic effects of industrial wastewater. Also, she has several studies about indoor air quality (IAQ). She is also in editorial board for more than 10 journals in her field of study.