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Team

Head of Department

​Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. Henner Hollert

Room: 3.319
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42171
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: hollert(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

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Emeritus

Prof. Dr. phil. Bruno Streit

Senior Professor for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Studies

Room: 3.315
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42172
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: streit(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

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Team Leaders and Assistant Professors

Dr. rer. nat. Sabrina Schiwy

Coordinator of the Master Programme Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health

Room: 3.318
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42173
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: schiwy(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

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Dr. rer. nat. Sarah Johann

Room: 3.319
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42243
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: johann(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

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Technicians

Simone Wollenweber (geb. Hotz)

Head of the Laboratory

Room: 3.317
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42163
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: s.wollenweber(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de
Email: e3tsekretariat(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Pascale Lewer

Room: 3.317
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42163
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: lewer(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Secretariat

Jessica Thonius

Room: 1. 320
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42160
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: thonius(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de
Email: e3tsekretariat(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

​Postdoctoral Researchers and Research Fellows

Prof. Dr. Saeed. S. Albaseer

Room: 3.315
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42172
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: albaseer(at)em(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Research interests:

  • Understanding and quantifying emerging environmental pollutants, in particular, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals
  • Developing extraction and chromatographic methods for trace analysis of chemical pollutants in the aquatic media
  • Mining, statistical analysis, and visualization of analytical data for environmental monitoring
  • Studying spatial and temporal variations in chemical quality of surface and groundwater catchments

Dr. Francisco Sylvester, PhD

Room: 3.315
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42172
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: Email: sylvester(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de 

Research interests: 

  • Ecology of freshwater invasive bivalves 
  • Shipping vectors for aquatic introductions 
  • Multiple stressors of aquatic ecosystems 
  • Chemical pollution, ecosystem degradation, and biodiversity loss
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Dr. Naeem Shahid, PhD

Room: Currently at UFZ
Phone: +49 (0) 341 235 1495
Fax: +49 (0) 341 235 45 1495
Email: naeem.shahid(at)ufz(dot)de



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Robust Nature Fellow Dr.-Ing. Peter Fantke

Room: Currently at substitute ApS, Copenhagen, Denmark
Phone: +45 5030 3850

Email: fantke(at)em(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Research interests: 

  • Dr. Peter Fantke is CEO of substitute ApS (https://substitute.dk), to develop methods and provide scientific advice to public and private sector institutions in chemicals assessment and management, life cycle assessment and substitution, and Managing Director of the USEtox Team (https://usetox.org) hosting UNEP's global reference model for life cycle toxicity characterization.
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Prof. Dr.  Lingling Wu

Room: 3.315
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42172
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161

Email: wu(at)em(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Research interests: 

  • Interaction between environmental pollutants and biodiversity.
  • Biological effects and mechanisms of environmental pollutants.
  • Environmental health risk assessment of water and sediments.


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Dr. Florencia Fernanda Liquin

Room: 3.316
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42169
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161


Email: liquin(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Research interests:
  • Multiple stressor in aquatic environment
  • Effect of chemical pollution and parasites in Invasive species
  • Susceptibility of freshwater organism to parasites

Alisson Felipe Moraes Neves

Room: 3.314
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42167
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161

Email: MoraesNeves(at)em(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de


Research interests:

  • Environmental diplomacy, focusing on multilateral agreements such as the Minamata Convention and the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions
  • Analysis of ocean public policies and strategies to achieve the goals of the UN Ocean Decade
  • Environmental Agenda-Setting
  • International Cooperation and Policy Diffusion


Dr. Omowunmi H. Fred-Ahmadu​

Room: 3.315
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42172
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161

Email: Fred-Ahmadu(at)em(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de frankfurt(dot)de


Research interests:

  • Microplastics pollution in the environment
  • Tyre wear particles and related organic pollutants such as alkylated PAHs and 6PPDQ
  • Environmental monitoring of potentially toxic chemicals, including trace metals and organic pollutants
  • Toxicology and risk assessment
  • Climate change effects and food safety 
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​Associates

​Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Werner Brack

Helmholz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)

Prof. Dr. Werner Brack is Head of the Department of Effect-Directed Analysis (WANA) at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ). He is a lecturer at the Goethe University as part of the Master courses "Environmental Science" and "Ecology and Evolution".

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Wolfgang Kübel

Rixdorf-Film

Wolfgang Kübel is owner of the film studio Rixdorf-Films. He is involved in teaching media literacy.

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​Dr. Paula Suares Rocha

Dr. Paula Suares Rocha is guest researcher and docent from Brazil, co-operating closely with our group. She an expert in the field of aquatic and terrestrial ecotoxicology and has considerable knowledge in in vivo, in situ and in vitro evaluation techniques, including bioassays for acute and chronic toxicity, genotoxicity, mutagenicity, teratogenicity and enzymatic activity.

Email: psr.ecotox(at)gmail(dot)com

PD Dr. Sebastian Klaus

PhD Students

Markus Schmitz, M.Sc.

Room: 3.314
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42167
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: schmitz(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: Ecotoxicological assessment of tire abrasion in stormwater runoff from heavily trafficked roads (RoadTox)

Fabian Weichert, M.Sc.

Room: 3.320
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42243
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: weichert(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: Der Einfluss multipler chemischer Stressoren auf freilebende Fischpopulationen - eine Fallstudie zur kombinierten Anwendung von Biomarkern sowie Transkriptom- und Genomanalysen

Fatma Marghany, M.Sc.

Phone: +49 (0)2972 302350
Email: fatma(dot)marghany(at)ime-extern(dot)fraunhofer(dot)de

Project: "OMICS- based identification of molecular effects of fungicidal active substances in aquatic non- target organisms" at Fraunhofer IME

Florian Gigl, M.Sc.

Room: 3.314
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42167
Email: gigl(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: Evolutionary toxicology: Resurrected Daphnia as a model organism to investigate micro-evolutionary adaptations of natural populations to multiple stressors in the environment

​Carolin Bertold, M.Sc.

Room: 3.320
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42162
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: bertold(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: GW Triade

​Inska Reichstein, M.Sc.

Room: 3.320
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42162
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: reichstein(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Alexandra Loll, M.Sc.

Location: Fraunhofer IME, Schmallenberg
Fax: +49 (0)2972 302264
Email: alexandra(dot)loll(at)ime(dot)fraunhofer(dot)de

Project: Ecotoxicogenomic hazard assessment of artificial sweeteners in aquatic model organisms

Abdulbashir Femi Salako, M.Sc.

Room: 3.316
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42169
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: salako(at)em(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Research topic: Efficiency of biosurfactants and botanical extracts in the remediation of oil polluted water and their ecotoxicological effects.

Jakob Pfefferle, M.Sc.

Room: 3.320
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42162
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: j(dot)pfefferle(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Bianca Dechent, M.Sc.

Room: 3.314
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42167
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: dechent(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Christian Forberg, M.Sc.

Room: 3.316
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42169
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: forberg(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: GW Triade

Alischa Helena Becker, M.Sc.

Room: 3.316
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42169
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: alischahelenabecker(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: Ecotoxicological Assessment of Chemical Warfare Agents and Their Transformation Products in Freshwater and Brakish Water Model Organisms

Hannah Dey, M.Sc.

Location: Umwelt Bundesamt, Dessau-Roßlau
Tel.: +49 (0)340 2103-3286
Email: hannah-philine(dot)dey(at)uba(dot)de

Project: Environmental Risk Assessment of RNAi-based Pesticides

Stella Jennes, M.Sc.

Room: 3.320
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42162
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: jennes(at)em(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: CPI

Jan Halaunia, M.Sc.

Room: 3.314
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42167
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: halaunia(at)bio(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: GW Triade

Research Assistants

Sarah Wohlmann, M.Sc.

Room: 3.320
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42162
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: s(dot)Wohlmann(at)em(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: GW Triade

Master's Students

Fynn Mevenkamp, B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: annika.mevenkamp(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: RobustNature - Flood event Stolberg 2021

Lena Müller, B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: lena_mueller(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: WARTOX

Jennifer Schmidt, B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: s9739293(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: RoadTox

Tim Freitag , B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: s2092136(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: Holtemme

Constanze Bös , B.Sc.

Location : DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Abt. Chemische Technik Email: s8975550(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: Umsetzung von kleinen Molekülen mittels elektrochemisch hergestellter Sauerstoffspezies

Florian Jünger , B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: juenger(dot)f(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: Integration of micro-scaling approaches in toxicity testing with U2OS cells

Marius Hinrichs , B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: marius(dot)hinrichs(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: Roadtox

​Laura Behnstedt , B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161

Project: Ecotoxicity of road runoff contaminated snow: A comparison of Norwegian and German roads

Denise Horte , B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: denise(dot)horte(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de


Vanessa Runge, B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: v(dot)runge(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: Temporal Trends for Transcriptomics in Effect Assessment

Anne Lehmann, B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: annelehmann(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: GW Triade

Clarissa Cantore, B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: Cantore(at)em(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de

Project: GW Triade

Myriam Kuhn, B.Sc.

Room: 3.313
Fax: +49 (0)69 798 42161
Email: m(dot)kuhn(at)stud(dot)uni-frankfurt(dot)de


Bachelor's Students

Alumni of the Hollert lab

Assisstant professors
  • Dr. Thomas-Benjamin Seiler (now: Executive Director, Hygiene-Institut des Ruhrgebiets, Institut für Umwelthygiene und Toxikologie, Gelsenkirchen, www.hyg.de)

Group leaders
  • Prof. Dr. Markus Brinkmann
  • Prof. Dr. Chen Qiqing
  • Prof. Dr. Mirna Velki (Croatia)
  • Prof. Dr. Steffen Keiter
  • Dr. Di Paolo Carolina
  • Dr. Jessica Legradi
  • Dr. Jan Wölz
  • Dr. Sebastian Heger
  • Dr. Sarah Crawford
  • Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Schiwy

Postdoctoral researchers
  • Dr. Beat Thalmann
  • Prof. Dr. W. U. Linling
  • Prof. Dr. A. V. Hallare
  • Dr. Jake Ouellet

Administrative/Technicians
  • Eva Wörner
  • Holger Geupel
  • Martha Bartosch

PhD students
  • Dr. Kerstin Bluhm
  • Dr. Kathrin Eichbaum
  • Dr. Tilman Floehr
  • Dr. Hongxia Xiao
  • Prof. Dr. Yunlu Jia
  • Dr. Shao Ying
  • Dr. Zhou Shangbo
  • Dr. Maletz Sibylle
  • Jochen Kuckelkorn
  • Dr. A. Kühnert (external UFZ)
  • Dr. C. Vogs (external UFZ)
  • Dr. Eva Buchner
  • Dr. Anne Simon
  • Dr. Matthias Muschket (external UFZ)
  • Dr. Hanno Zielke
  • Dr. L. Zhu
  • Dr. L. Sonnack
  • Dr. Anne-K. Mueller
  • Dr. C. Hug (extern UFZ)
  • Dr. Manuel Garcia-Kaeufer
  • Dr. Pedro Inastroza
  • Dr. Riccardo Massei (external UFZ)
  • Dr. Melis Muz (external UFZ)
  • Dr. Thomas Kosmehl
  • Dr. Stefanie Grund
  • Dr. Wiebke Meyer
  • Dr. U. Hudjetz
  • Dr. C. F. Mariani
  • Dr. Björn Deutschmann
  • Dr. Yvonne Müller
  • Dr. Henriette Alert
  • Dr. Sina Volz
  • Dr. Leonie Nüsser
  • Dr. Nora Niehus
  • Dr. Julia Brendt
  • Dr. Michael Gundlach
  • Dr. Anne Kreutzer
  • Dr. Carina Lackmann
  • Dr. Aliaksandra Shuliakevich
  • Dr. Alexander Dorn
  • Dr. Hannes Reinwald
  • Marc Wollenweber
  • Mira Goßen
  • Feifei Xue
  • Dr. Miaomiao Du

Guest researcher (short term)
  • Martin Benisek
  • P. Shi
  • B. Eisner
  • C. Chinoraks
  • Pia Valitalo
  • O. Westman
  • Prof. Dr. Xu LY
  • E. S. Emelogu
  • L. Liu
  • Prof. Dr. A. C. Ion
  • S. Zahov
  • Prof. Dr. A. Perovic
  • Prof. Dr. S. Perovic
  • S. Jernbro
  • Eric Higley
  • Dr. N. Gustavsson
  • Prof. Dr. J. Rakocevic-Nedovic
  • Prof. Dr. Neziri
  • Prof. Dr. Nevila Bushati
  • Yuan Meng, B.Sc.
  • Kun Qiao, B.Sc.
  • Dr. Xingchen Zhao

Bacheor's, Master's and Diploma students
  • Jennifer Bräunig
  • Marit Ernst
  • K. Kirchner
  • K. Kubiak
  • Carolin Gembé
  • Regine Redelstein
  • Jenny Kunze
  • Timon Heide
  • Dr. Winkens Kerstin
  • Rachel Conrad
  • Gülsah Dogruer
  • M. P. Hennig
  • Andrea Gerstner
  • Dr. Thuy Bui
  • Josef Koch
  • Dr. Anne Wyrwoll
  • Sandra Stoffels
  • A. Hawliczek
  • Katja Grosshans
  • Dr. R. Strecker
  • Sabine Niebergall
  • Matthias Reininghaus
  • Dr. Christine Schönlau
  • Jonas Nelles
  • L. Bodewein
  • K. Multer
  • Sebastian Steffens
  • Jonas Hausen
  • Dr. Jens C. Otte
  • Dr. B. Wetterauer
  • Sven Koglin
  • M. Schulze-Sylvester
  • H. Blenkle
  • G. Hinger
  • Nina Best
  • Stefanie Bley
  • Dr. Stefanie Seitz Nadja
  • Nina Klee
  • N. König
  • Dr. Markus Ulrich
  • Laura Loewe
  • Vaness Hartmann
  • Sarah Tofan
  • Jessica Bender
  • Yannis König
  • Marisa Nagler
  • Mareike Nessel
  • Kim Hügl
  • Sarah Hörchner
  • Laura Soose
  • Bruno Meyer zu Altenschildesche
  • Katharina Wolf
  • Jade Tessien
  • Lena Müller
  • Nastasia Schmitt
  • Florian Jünger
  • David Michael Noah Kleindienst
  • Selina Seibold
  • Nicole Jennifer Goede
  • Isabel Massingue
  • Marius Hinrichs
  • Alexander Paper
  • Julien Colas
  • Sarah Cüpper
  • Nastasia Schmitt
  • Dominik Nerlich
  • Jennifer Bayer
  • Nils Henning Rühmann
  • Ralph Borgardt
  • Marlene Baum
  • Tanja Reimann
  • Robin Mazur
  • Polina Kan


Student assistants 

  • Hannah Weisenberg, MPH