Research interests
Chemical contamination caused by human activities has become an environmental problem worldwide, since chemicals reach the water cycle via point sources.
Considering the wide distribution and potential threat of nicosulfuron and azoxystrobin, it is important to evaluate the toxicity of these two pesticides in aquatic wildlife more intensely and especially also with respect to the influence of confounding factors, as e.g. temperature or the pH value on their toxicity.
In my PhD project, I want to determine the temperature- and pH-dependant toxicity of the herbicide nicosulfuron and fungicide azoxystrobin in two freshwater species (Daphnia magna and in early life stages of zebrafish Danio rerio) with the aim to provide realistic effect data which can be used for EQS deviation.
Education and experience
- 2021 - now: PhD candidate at the Institute of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany
- 2018-2021: MSc, Dallian Ocean University.
- Thesis: “Effects of sea mud level in feed on feeding, growth, digestion, and intestinal tract of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus.”
- Thesis: “Effects of sea mud level in feed on feeding, growth, digestion, and intestinal tract of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus.”
- 2015-2016: Exchange student, China Ocean University
- 2014-2018: BSc, Dallian Ocean University
- Thesis: “The effects of sub-lethal dietary mercury on growth performance, bioaccumulation, and activities of antioxidant enzymes in sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus.”