• 2026 Journal of Nanobiotechnology Rising Star
• 2025 ASPB Jane Silverthorne Early Career Award
• 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.

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