 | Dr. Martin Wagner Associated Professor martin.wagner at ntnu dot no +47 73413047 CV ORCID ResearcherID/reviewer profile on Publons |
 | Dr. Johannes Völker Postdoctoral fellow johannes.voelker at ntnu dot no Study course: Bachelor in Biological Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (D), Master in Environmental Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (D) Bachelor thesis: Impacts of titanium dioxide nanoparticles on aquatic organisms Master thesis: Effects of titanium dioxide nanoparticles on aquatic invertebrates PhD thesis: Ecotoxicity assessment for new technical wastewater treatment solutions targeted for organic micropollutant biodegradation in the ATHENE project |
 | Dr. Laura Monclús Anglada Postdoctoral fellow laura.monclus at ntnu dot no FINS Fellowship: PLASTIMPACT - The Impact of Microplastics on Birds: An Environmentally Realistic Approach PhD thesis: Feathers as a matrix to assess stress response in birds and biomonitor environmental pollutants: an integrative approach at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain |
 | Trude Johansen Staff engineer trude.johansen at ntnu dot no +47 73594070 |
 | Zdenka Bartosova Staff engineer zdenka.bartosova at ntnu dot no |
 | Andrea Faltynkova PhD fellow Thesis: Applying Machine Learning to hyperspectral images for identifying microplastics (co-supervision with Geir Johnsen) |
 | Molly McPartland PhD fellow Thesis: Interaction of plastic chemicals with G-protein coupled receptors and subsequent cellular alterations: an integrative approach (co-supervision with Johannes Völker) |
 | Gabriël Olthof PhD fellow Thesis: In vivo toxicity of microplastics in the LimnoPlast project (co-supervision with Johannes Völker) |
 | Sarah Stevens PhD fellow Thesis: Chemicals leaching from plastics: in vitro toxicity and identification of causative substances in the LimnoPlast project (co-supervision with Johannes Völker) |
| Ingrid Erichsen MSc student Thesis: Uptake of microplastics by cod larvae (co-supervision with Iurgi Imanol Salaverria-Zabalegui) |
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| Inger Larsen Lyngstad MSc student Thesis: Effects of plastic leachates on polychaeta (co-supervision with Andy Booth at SINTEF) |
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 | Harini Pechiappan MSc student Thesis: Uptake and impacts of nanoplastics on macrophages (co-supervision with Felicity Ashcroft and Berit Johansen) |
 | Eliana McCann Smith MSc student Thesis: Microplastics and seabirds (co-supervision with Laura Monclus) |
 | Erik Hvid Hundstad MSc student Thesis: Toxicity of microplastics made of biodegradable polymers (co-supervision with Gabriël Olthof) |
 | Hanna Sofie Skåland MSc student Thesis: Identification of plastic chemicals (co-supervision with Sarah Stevens) |
 | Mahnaz Jafari MSc student Thesis: Validating reproducible analytical pipelines for the analysis of microplastics in environmental samples (external at NIVA, co-supervision with Amy Lusher and Bart van Bavel) |
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 | Aennes Abbas PhD fellow abbas at bio.uni-frankfurt.de Study courses: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim; Master of Science in Environmental Studies (Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (D)) Master thesis: Toxicity of HHCB and its postulated role as chemosensitizer in C. elegans (Nematode bioassay) PhD thesis: Characterization of the potential ecotoxicity of emerging water-borne micropollutants in the TransRisk project |
 | Sabrina Giebner PhD fellow giebner at bio.uni-frankfurt.de Study course: Biology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (D) Diploma thesis: Ecotoxicological characterisation of nano-scale titanium dioxide PhD thesis: Integrative detection of toxic and endocrine disrupting potentials and effects of trace pollutants of the river Schussen in the SchussenAktivplus project |
 | Ilona Schneider PhD fellow i.schneider at bio.uni-frankfurt.de Study course: Biology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (D) Diploma thesis: Influence of sewage treatment plant effluents on the population structure of amphipods (Gammarus spec.) PhD thesis: Risk characterisation of emerging pollutants in the water cycle in the TransRisk project |
 | Christoph Schür PhD fellow Schuer at bio.uni-frankfurt.de Study course: Ecotoxicology at RWTH Aachen (D) M.Sc. thesis: A comprehensive impact study for spherical and irregular microplastic particles on fitness-related endpoints in the crustacean Daphnia magna. PhD thesis: Molecular biomarkers for microplastics effects in invertebrates in the MiWa project |
 | Annkatrin Weber PhD fellow a.weber at bio.uni-frankfurt.de Study course: Bachelor in Biological Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (D), Teacher's exam at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (D) Exam thesis: Effects of chronic microplastic exposure in Gammarus pulex in the Microplastics project PhD thesis: Ecotoxicity of freshwater microplastics in the microplastics project |
 | Lisa Zimmermann PhD fellow l.zimmermann at bio.uni-frankfurt.de Study course: Masters in Biological Sciences at University of Konstanz PhD thesis: Toxicity of plastic chemicals and microplastics in the PlastX project |
Former members
| 2013-2020 | Christian Scherer (PhD) Thesis: Microplastics in freshwater bodies - Sources, fate and impacts |
| 2019-2020 | Dhiya Sathananthan (MSc Ocean Resources) Thesis: Selective Ingestion of Textile Microfibres by Calanus finmarchicus (co-supervision with Iurgi Imanol Salaverria-Zabalegui and Andy Booth) |
| 2020 | Sebastian Behr (Erasmus+ Trainee from Hochschule Fresenius, Idstein, Germany) |
| 2019 | Siqi Wang (M.Sc. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Thesis: Baseline toxicity and estrogenic activity in baby food: influence of the packaging |
| 2019 | Gianmarco Marino (Erasmus+ Trainee from Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy) |
| 2014-2019 | Nina Jeckel (B.Sc. Biology, M.Sc. Environmental Sciences, PhD fellow) |
| 2018-2019 | Shova Adhikari (M.Sc. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Thesis: Comparative toxicity of exfoliating products containing microplastics and alternative particles from Nepal |
| 2018-2019 | Dina Tervik Rogstad (M.Sc. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Thesis: Effects of Microplastic Fibres on the Marine Microalgae Isochrysis galbana (T-ISO) (co-supervision with Iurgi Imanol Salaverria-Zabalegui and Andy Booth) |
| 2018-2019 | Therese Meyer (M.Sc. Marine Coastal Development) Thesis: Optimising the frequency of clean-up actions in depositional coves in the Lofoten archipelago, Norway to maximize debris removal (external at SALT, Lofoten) |
| 2012-2018 | Dennis Becker (PhD) Thesis: Ecotoxicological assessment of new enzymatic decontamination technology regarding the degradation of recalcitrant micropollutants in wastewater in the ENDETECH project |
| 2015-2018 | Scott Lambert (PostDoc) Project: FreshwaterMPs |
| 2018 | Beatrice Kulawig (M.Sc.) Thesis: Identification of endocrine disruptors in thermal paper extracts |
| 2017 | Carolin Weil (B.Sc.) Thesis: Uptake of microplastics by freshwater bivalves |
| 2017 | Sebastijan Vurusic (M.Sc.) Thesis: Abundance of microplastics in the River Elbe |
| 2017 | Kristina Klein (M.Sc.) Thesis: Effects of irregular microplastics on the freshwater invertebrate Daphnia magna |
| 2017 | Simon Umbach (B.Sc.) Thesis: Uptake, excretion and effect of polystyrene microplastics in freshwater gastropods |
| 2017 | Natascha Cascanette (B.Sc.) Thesis: Microplastic: sediment analysis, spatial distribution, and degradation |
| 2017 | Moritz Damm (M.Sc.) Thesis: Environmental distribution and degradation of microplastics under outdoor conditions |
| 2017 | Franz Jäger (M.Sc.) Thesis: Polystyrene microplastics induced alteration of oxidative stress level (ORAC/TBARS) in the freshwater crustacean Daphnia magna |
| 2017 | Anastasia Swonkow (M.Sc.) Thesis: Extraction of microplastics from river sediments |
| 2016 | Lydia Rongstock (B.Sc.) Thesis: Effects of microplastics on freshwater organism communities in an artificial mesocosm study |
| 2016 | Philipp Vikari (M.Sc.) Thesis: Investigation of endocrine disrupting chemicals in sport and outdoor plastic bottles |
| 2016 | Maximilian Hübinger (M.Sc.) Thesis: Bioanalytical investigations of endocrine disrupting chemicals in personal care products |
| 2016 | Maria Brose (B.Sc. student) Research project: Sorption of endocrine activity to microplastics |
| 2015 | Marie Hohoff (B.Sc.) Thesis: Environmental fate of microplastics during wastewater treatment |
| 2015 | Christoph Parsch (B.Sc.) Thesis: Wastewater treatment plants as a source of microplastic in aquatic ecosystems |
| 2014 | Daniâ Mazzeo (PostDoc) EDCs in sewage sludge. Research stay at our lab as part her Green Talents award. |
| 2013 | Bertrand Gräf (M.Sc.) Thesis: Mutagenic profiles of chemical mixtures in the AMES fluctuation assay Performed externally at the Federal Institute for Hydrology |
| 2012-2013 | Catherine Antoni (M.Sc.) Thesis: Passive sampling of sediment-associated pollutants at the river Elbe Performed externally at the Federal Institute for Hydrology |
| 2012-2013 | Sarah Charaf (M.Sc.) Thesis: Effects of endocrine disruptors on the reproduction of Physella acuta with focus on epigenetic modifications |
| 2012-2013 | Lucie Valek (M.Sc.) Thesis: CYP35A3::GFP induction and reproductive toxicity of β-Naphtoflavone and environmental water samples on Caenorhabditis elegans |
| 2012-2013 | Elisabeth Berger (M.Sc.) Thesis: Parabens detected in baby teething rings are xenoestrogens and anti-androgens |
| 2012-2013 | Raoul Wolf (M.Sc.) Thesis: Combined Effects of DEET and Permethrin on Aquatic Invertebrates |
| 2012 | Theresa Hack (B.Sc.) Thesis: In vitro detection of dioxin-like activity in human endometriosis and tumor cell lines |
| 2012 | Albert Guart (PhD student) Research stay to investigate EDCs in plastic food packaging. |
| 2011-2012 | Andriy Reva (M.Sc.) Thesis: Investigation of the specific modes of action of three environmentally relevant cytostatics |
| 2009-2010 | Isabell Jersch (Diploma) Thesis: Analysing the endocrine activity of environmental chemicals and samples with the yeast-two-hybrid assay for selected nuclear receptors |
| 2009-2010 | Maximilian Behr (Diploma) Thesis: Comparative assessment for endocrine active substances in food stuff by means of bioassays and chemical analyses |
| 2006-2007 | Eva Luther (Diploma) Thesis: Endocrine active chemicals in food packaging material |
| 2005-2006 | Julia Horak (Teacher's exam) Thesis: Assessing the leaching of estrogenic and anti-estrogenic compounds from food packaging material by means of a bioassay |
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[…] Martin Wagner, a toxicologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, says that it is a misconception to assume bioplastics are safer. Most health concerns about plastics are linked to plastic additives, chemicals added to give polymers desirable properties, like flexibility and durability. “There are very few polymers that come with little added chemicals because they simply don’t work without added chemicals,” Wagner says. “They are needed for bio-based plastics and conventional plastics.” […]