Caglar Akay
Address:
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany
Building: 7.3
Room: 2.028
Phone: +49 341 6025 1759
Research Interests
Caglar has been involved in the EXPOSO-METER project, where the main objective is to characterize internal exposure of humans to mixtures of persistent and bioaccumulative organic contaminants for future exposure, hazard and risk assessments. His work focuses on:
- Passive equilibrium sampling using silicone chemometers
- Chemical profiling techniques including GC-MS/MS and GC-HRMS
Curriculum Vitae
since 2024
Post-doctoral Researcher, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Exposure Science (Leipzig, Germany)
2020 - 2023
Doctoral Researcher, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Molecular Environmental Biotechnology (Leipzig, Germany)
2018 - 2020
M.Sc. in Ecotoxicology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau (Landau, Germany)
2014 - 2017
M.Sc. in Environmental Technology, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey)
2010 - 2014
B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Yildiz Technical University (Istanbul, Turkey)
Projects
2018 - 2025
EXPOSO-METER:
Collaborators: Ursula Siebert (TIHO Hannover), Christian Sonne/Rune Dietz (Aarhus University), Cristina Fossi/Cristina Panti (UNISI Siena), Heather Stapleton (Duke University), Onno Frerichs (Klinikum Bielefeld)
Publications
Index:
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2025 (1)
- Liu, X., Köpke, J., Akay, C., Kümmel, S., Imfeld, G. (2025):
Sulfamethoxazole transformation by heat-activated persulfate: Linking transformation products patterns with carbon and nitrogen isotope fractionation
Environ. Sci. Technol. 59 (11), 5704 - 5714 10.1021/acs.est.4c09732
2024 (2)
- Akay, C., Ulrich, N., Ding, C., Nunes da Rocha, U., Adrian, L. (2024):
Sequential anaerobic-aerobic treatment enhances sulfamethoxazole removal: From batch cultures to observations in a large-scale wastewater treatment plant
Environ. Sci. Technol. 58 (28), 12609 - 12620 10.1021/acs.est.4c00368 - Liu, X., Akay, C., Köpke, J., Kümmel, S., Richnow, H.H., Imfeld, G. (2024):
Direct phototransformation of sulfamethoxazole characterized by four-dimensional element compound specific isotope analysis
Environ. Sci. Technol. 58 (23), 10322 - 10333 10.1021/acs.est.4c02666
2023 (1)
- Bonatelli, M.L., Rohwerder, T., Popp, D., Liu, Y., Akay, C., Schultz, C., Liao, K.-P., Ding, C., Reemtsma, T., Adrian, L., Kleinsteuber, S. (2023):
Recently evolved combination of unique sulfatase and amidase genes enables bacterial degradation of the wastewater micropollutant acesulfame worldwide
Front. Microbiol. 14 , art. 1223838 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1223838
2020 (1)
- Akay, C., & Tezel, U. (2020). Biotransformation of Acetaminophen by intact cells and crude enzymes of bacteria: A comparative study and modelling. The Science of the total environment, 703, 134990. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134990