Dr. Andreas Schiwy

Name: Dr. Andreas Schiwy
Room: 3.316
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42169
Fax: +49 (0) 69 798 42161
Mail: a.schiwy@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

Position: Team leader (Assistant Professor) and deputy S1 project manager

Research fields

Aquatic ecotoxicology
Cell culture
Animal-free in vitro
Biotechnological metabolism simulation
Development of transgenic cell lines
Genotoxicity
High-content imaging
Behavioral monitoring (zebrafish, gammarids)

Research fields

Evolutionary and aquatic toxicology
Mixture toxicity and multiple stress
Benthic invertebrates and community assessment
Metabolomics, proteomics and genetic diversity
Environmental Risk Assessment

Ongoing projects

NC3R CRACK IT 36: animal-free in vitro Phase 2
C(ASY)-AMES - Development of a highly sensitive, automatic method without animal components for the identification of mutagens according to the AMES principle (BMWK)

Synergy funds in RobustNature:

AMRES - Resilience of the order Amphipoda in the evolving Anthropocene - Quantifying behavioral mechanisms under multiple stressors.
NORMAN JPA 2020 Development of in vivo workflows to support explorative EDA studies - solving bottlenecks using Danio rerio embryos

Completed projects

Neurobox (BMBF)
Sign 2 (BMBF)
optAmes (DBU)
NC3R CRACK IT 36: animal-free in vitro Phase 1

Curriculum vitae

Since 08/2022	Research Associate, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology & Applied Ecology (IME), Department of Media-Related Ecotoxicology (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Henner Hollert), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Since 07/2020	Teamleader; Department Evolutionary Ecology & Environmental Toxicology (E³T; Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Henner Hollert) at the Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt
11/2017 - 06/2020	Research Associate; Department of Ecosystem Analysis (ESA; Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Henner Hollert) at the Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University
02/2019 – 03/2023	Managing Director/Co-Founder, EWOMIS GmbH, Bruchköbel
07/2016	PhD student; Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University, Department of Ecosystem Analyses (ESA; Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert), RWTH Aachen University. PhD thesis: "The nanotoxicology of a newly developed zero-valent iron nanomaterial for groundwater remediation and its remediation efficiency assessment with of in vitro bioassays for detection of dioxin-like environmental pollutants". Technical and disciplinary supervision of bachelor and master theses

Memberships and committees

Since 2020	Member of the NORMAN network, working group 2 on bioassays
Since 2018	Member of the European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EUSAAT)
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)
Since October 2015	Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
Since 06/2009	Collaboration in the §64 LFGB working group "Effect-related analytics"

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