Belated welcome to Julia!
Julia Schmidt is part of the COntaminated Micro/nanoPlastics on the food safety of FISH (CoMPFish) project led by Associate Professor Wei Wang. The project is concerned with the study of the interaction between micro/nanoplastics and contaminants and their combined toxicity in fish. The project relies on collaboration with the College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, China and NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, Bergen, Norway.
Julia completed her B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences at the University of Greifswald, Germany in microbial ecology. This was followed by her M.Sc. in Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. For her master thesis she participated in the GAME (Global Approach of Modular Experiments) training program at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. She investigated whether natural and plastic microparticles differ in their effects on the performance of marine benthic filter feeders (Mytilus edulis). To investigate this, she has been at both Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia, and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany.
