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Members

Gözde S. Demirer

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering (2022) - CV​

 

2024 Rising Stars in Plant Sciences Award

2024 ACS Zero Hunger Award

2023 AIChE’s 35 under 35 Award

Gözde was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey and received her B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Koc University in 2015. Gözde completed her Chemical Engineering Ph.D. at UC Berkeley with Prof. Markita Landry in 2020. During her Ph.D. studies, she developed nanotechnologies for plant genetic engineering. For her postdoctoral work, Gözde joined Prof. Siobhan Brady's lab at UC Davis, where she studied nutrient use efficiency of tomato and developed high-throughput functional genomics tools to study transcriptional regulation in crops.

Contact Gözde if you want to join the Demirer Lab!

gdemirer@caltech.edu

Research Staff
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Alumni

Aya Nakayama (2022 - 2023 Research Technician) now Graduate student in UCLA Bioengineering
Adia Tajima (2023 - 2024 Research Technician) now Graduate student in UC Riverside Plant Biology
Tessa Pierce (2024 Spring Undergraduate researcher) now senior undergraduate student in Caltech
Yuan Geng 
(2023 - 2024 Postdoctoral researcher)

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