Oksana Golovko

My research is focused on:

• organic micropollutants (OMPs) in the environment and their environmental fate,
• occurrence of OMPs in different matrices (waste water, surface water, soil, sediment, sludge and fish),
• how OMPs can be removed from the environment,
• development of analytical methods based on liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry/ high resolution mass spectrometry,
• monitoring and effect studies.

Current projects:

• Biokolfilter: On-farm biochar filters for removal of organic micropollutants from reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation, Stiftelsen Lantbruksforskning (main applicant: Oksana Golovko)
• BioReset: Biodiversity restoration and conservation of inland water ecosystems for environmental and human well-being, BiodivERsA and Water JPI (main applicant: LAQ, REQUIMTE, Portugal)
• FoodsecURe: Food security through better sanitation: The case of urine recycling, Norwegian Research Council (PI: Divina Gracia Rodriguez, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research) (main applicant: Divina Gracia P. Rodriguez)
• MECROPLAN: Mapping of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) including microplastic in landfill leachate, their current ecological impact and sustainable technologies for their removal, Formas (main applicant: Oksana Golovko)
• MUSA: Mushroom-based processes for increased local production of non-meat protein and enhanced agriculture sustainability, NordForsk (main applicant: Carlos Orestes Martin Medina)
• MLPOMA: Predicting organic micropollutants in aquatic environments: a machine learning approach, J. Gust. Richert stiftelse (main applicant: Oksana Golovko)

Academic supervision:

Alberto Celma, Researcher, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, (2025-present).

Bent Speksnijder, Research Assistant, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, (2024-present).

Romain Figuière, Research Assistant, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, (2021).

Patrick Wong, PhD student (main supervisor), Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, (2023-present).

Maximilian Tyka, PhD student (main supervisor), Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, (2023-present).

Esteban Restrepo Montes, PhD student (co supervisor), IDAEA - Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain, (2022-present).

Daniel Malnes, licentiate student (main supervisor), Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, (2021-2023).

Wiebke Dürig, PhD student (co supervisor), Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, (2019-2021).

Anna Kamél, Master student (main supervisor), Uppsala University, (2025).

Bent Speksnijder, Master student (main supervisor), Uppsala University, (2024).

Natalie Storm, Master student (main supervisor), Uppsala University, (2024).

Victoria Runnäs, Master student (main supervisor), Uppsala University, (2021).

Michal Kaczmarek, Master student (main supervisor), Uppsala University, (2021).

Malin Forsberg, Master student (main supervisor), Uppsala University, (2019).

Daniel Malnes, Master student (main supervisor), Uppsala University, (2018).

Anna-Lena Rehrl, Master student (main supervisor), Environmental Sciences (EnvEuro program), (2018).

Adrià Sunyer Caldú, guest PhD student, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Department of Environmental Chemistry, Barcelona, Spain (2021).

Kim Hanisch, guest Bachelor student (main supervisor), University of Hohenheim, Department of food chemistry and analytical chemistry, Germany, (2021).

Nicolas Buch, guest Bachelor student (main supervisor), Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany, (2021).

Philipp Deist, guest Bachelor student (main supervisor), Leipzig - Universität Leipzig, Germany, (2021).

Myrthe Fokkenrood, guest Bachelor student (main supervisor), Has University of Applied Sciences, Environmental sciences, Den Bosch, Netherlands, (2020).   

Aleksandr Malinovskyi, BSc. (Kherson State Agricultural University, UA), (main supervisor), International summer school project, (2014)      

Sabina Váňová, BSc. (Masaryk University in Brno, CZ), (main supervisor), International summer school project, (2014)    

Beliczky Gábor, MSc. (University of Pannonia in Keszthely, HU), (main supervisor), International summer school project, (2013)      

Novotný Jaroslav, BSc. (Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, CZ), (main supervisor), International summer school project, (2013)  

2021–present Associate Professor (Docent) in Environmental Chemistry, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

2019–present Researcher, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

2017–2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

2014–2017 Researcher, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Biochemistry, Vodňany, Czech Republic

2010–2014 PhD, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Biochemistry, Vodňany, Czech Republic

2009 MSc in Physiology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2008 BSc in Biology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine