Education/professional experience

1987–1993: Faculty of Biology, University of Hamburg, Germany
1993–1993: M.Sc. on environmentally relevant aspects of the use of antibiotics in aquaculture, Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries, University of Hamburg, Germany, and Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland
1995–1996: Dept. of Ecotoxicology, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
1996–2000: PhD on 'Acid tolerance of early life stages of indigenous fish species under the hydrochemical conditions of Lusatian post-mining lakes', Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, and Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany
2000–now: Scientist at ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Flörsheim (Main), Germany

Research interests

Toxicity testing using fish early life stages
Gene expression in fish embryos
Alternatives to fish tests
Estrogenic effects on fish
Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals