Dr. Sabrina Schiwy

Position: Team leader (Assistant Professor) and coordinator of Master Programme Ecology and Evolution


Research fields
  • Aqatic ecotoxicology
  • Sediment toxicology
  • Advanced wastewater treatment technologies
  • Development of alternatives to animal testing
  • Mechanism-specific toxicity

Ongoing projects
  • RobustNature Excellence-Initiative (internal funding GU)
  • Synergy funds in RobustNature:
    • Weather-related extreme events as a systemic risk: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the flood events of 2021
    • Resuspension of contaminated sediments associated with severe flooding in aquatic ecosystems: Impacts and potential resilience mechanisms
  • Effects of Flood event 2021 (DFG)
  • RoadTox (LANUV)
  • EfectroH2O (BMBF)
  • Kontrisol (BMBF)
  • TeToxBescheid (FNR)
  • PepCat (BMBF)

Completed projects
  • DemO3AC (MKULNV)
  • Awaregio (BMBF)
  • View4.0 (Excellence initiative via ERS, RWTH-Aachen)
  • Olfactory toxicity in zebrafish (DBU)
  • Dantox (BMBF)

Curriculum vitae
Since 10/2019

Teamleader; Department Evolutionary Ecology & Environmental Toxicology (E³T; Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert) at the Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt

02/2015-09/2019

Teamleader; Department of Ecosystem Analysis (ESA; Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert) at the Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University

04/2010-09/20

PhD student; Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University, Department of Ecosystem Analyses (ESA; Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert), RWTH Aachen University. PhD thesis: "Development and application of sediment contact bioassays for the investigation of acute and mechanism-specific toxicity with Danio rerio embryos."

  • Development and establishment of new ecotoxicological test methods
  • Gene expression analyses
  • Technical and disciplinary supervision of bachelor and master theses
09/2009-03/20109

Research Assistant; Institue of Environmental Research, Department Ecosystem Analysis (ESA; Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert), RWTH Aachen University

10/2003-02/2009

Diploma studies in biology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

  • Ecology and Evolution of Animals; Focus on marine ecology and biodiversity
  • Toxikology; Focus on human toxikology and forensic forensische toxikology
  • Animal physiology; Focus on neurophysiology
  • Diploma thesis: "Succession study of pig carcasses concerning different seasons."

Memberships and committees
Since 2021

Head of the Expert Committee "Ecotoxicology "of the Water Chemistry Society

Since 12/2019

Animal Welfare Assistant, Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Environmental Toxicology (E3T; Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert), the Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt

05/2017-09/2019

Member of the RWTH-Aachen Animal Welfare Committee appointed by the Rector, RWTH Aachen University

2011-2013

Lecturer of the postgraduate course for the training of ecotoxicologists.

  • Aquatic Ecotoxicology (RWTH Aachen University)
  • Molecular Mechanisms of Action and Effects on the Cell (University of Heidelberg)
  • Biomonitoring and retrospective assessment strategies ( Goethe University Frankfurt)
02/2010

Chair of the organisation committee of the 2nd international "Young Environmental Scientist (YES)-meeting" in Aachen; RWTH-Aachen

05/2010-05/2013

Member of the "Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)"

Contact

Dr. Sabrina Schiwy

Room: 3.318
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42173
Fax: +49 (0) 69 798 42161
Mail: schiwy@bio.uni-frankfurt.de