About
Ulaş Tezel is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (IESc) at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. His office is located in HKC-305. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (2009), and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Environmental Engineering from Middle East Technical University (2003 and 2001).
His research focuses on micropollutant occurrence, biotransformation of organic pollutants, molecular genetics of bacterial biotransformation, and catabolic transposons/plasmids. Key projects include studying disinfectant biodegradation during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, IoT-driven AI for sustainable watershed management, and ecophylogenetic analysis of genetic elements.
Recent publications address global pharmaceutical pollution, pesticide residues in rice, wastewater treatment using microbial reactors, river micropollutant categorization, and acetaminophen biotransformation modeling. He leads the BIOMIG lab (BIOMIG), focusing on environmental microbiology and biotechnology.
His grants include projects funded by Boğaziçi University Research Fund, CHIST-ERA, and TÜBİTAK. Current initiatives emphasize integrating AI and IoT for environmental decision-making and developing bioremediation tools for wastewater treatment.
