Dr. Sarah Johann

Name: Dr. Sarah Johann

Room: 3.319
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42243
Fax: +49 (0) 69 798 42161
Mail: johann@bio.uni-frankfurt.de


Position: Team leader (Assistant Professor) and coordinator of RobustNature Excellence-Initiative


Research fields
  • Aqatic ecotoxicology
  • Marine and freshwater fish model species
  • Green Toxicology
  • Toxicity of oil spills and oil spill response measures
  • Bioanalytics
  • Mechanism-specific toxicity

Ongoing projects
  • RobustNature Excellence-Initiative (internal funding GU)
  • Synergy funds in RobustNature:
    • SensoryTox - Impairment of sensory organ development in petroleum-exposed fish early life stages
    • The impact of multiple chemical stressors on wild fish populations - A case study on the combined application of biomarkers as well as transcriptome and genome analyses
  • Kontrisol (BMBF)
  • Effects of Flood events (DFG)
  • NORMAN JPA 2020 Development of in vivo workflows to support explorative EDA studies - solving bottlenecks using Danio rerio embryos
  • NORMAN JPA Sources – virtual EDA towards identification of the drivers of toxicity in wastewater
  • Integrated investigation of the Fechenheimer Mainbogen (internal funding)
  • Chemicals of emerging concern (CECs) in the marine environment: The Stenungsund case study in Sweden (University of Göteborg & UFZ)
  • SurfIn – Surface Active Biomolecules for the Chemical Industry

Completed projects
  • GRACE (EU Horizon 2020)
  • GreenToxiConomy (BioSC NRW-Strategy project)
  • Stolberg (VWER and city of Stolberg)

Curriculum vitae
Since October 2021

Coordination of Robust-Nature Cluster of Excellence Initiative

September 2021

SETAC-GLB award for the best PhD thesis 2019 and 2020 in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria

Since November 2019

Management and Coordination of the fish husbandry of D. rerio and O. melastigma at the Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Environmental Ecotoxicology (E3T) Goethe University Frankfurt

May 2020

Graduation at RWTH Aachen University: Dr. rer. nat in Ecotoxicology with distinction, thesis title: “Acute and mechanism-specific toxicity of oils and oil spill response actions – Adaption of relevant bioanalytical tools and evaluation of ecotoxicological effects"

October 2019 – May 2020

Adjunct Research Assistant at the Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Environmental Ecotoxicology (E3T) Goethe University Frankfurt

September 2018 – December 2018

Research Internship at the Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology, University of Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain, supervised by Dr. Amaia Orbea and Prof. Dr. Ionan Marigómez

September 2016 – July 2019

Management and Coordination of the fish husbandry of D. rerio at the Department of Ecosystem Analysis, Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University

February 2016 – May 2020

PhD research fellow at the Department of Ecosystem Analysis, Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (supervised by Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert)

July 2013 – January 2016

Student Assistant, Department of Ecosystem Analysis, Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University

September 2015

Graduation in Ecotoxicology with distinction (MSc), thesis title: “The genotoxic and endocrine potential of polar and moderate hydrophobic contaminants in wastewater and sewage sludge", supervised by Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert and Prof. Dr. Andreas Schäffer

October 2013 – September 2015

Studies of Ecotoxicology (MSc.) at RWTH Aachen University

October 2013

“Schöneborn" Award for best 10 % of BSc. candidates in 2013, RWTH Aachen University

September 2013

Graduation in Biology (BSc.) with distinction, thesis title: “Ecotoxicological characterization of Mono-Rhamnolipids" supervised by Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert, Institute for Environmental Research, and Prof. Dr. Lars Blank, Institute for Applied Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University

October 2010 – September 2013

Studies of of Biology (BSc.) at RWTH Aachen University


Memberships and committees
Since 2020

Member of the NORMAN network, working group 2 on bioassays

2017

Lecture and practical supervision of the Indian summer school at RWTH Aachen University

2017

Tutoring Postgraduate studies on aquatic ecotoxicology at RWTH Aachen University

2017

Student Member of the appeal committee of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Science of RWTH Aachen University

Since 2016

Lecture and practical supervision of the MSc. Laboratory and Animal Science (MLAS) course of the University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University

Since October 2015

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

Contact

Dr. Sarah Johann

Room: 3.319
Phone: +49 (0)69 798 42243
Fax: +49 (0) 69 798 42161
Mail: johann@bio.uni-frankfurt.de