Inter Applied Chemistry Programme 5

Intorduction to hazard assessment of chemicals

Marta Markiewicz

Marta Markiewicz obtained a Master’s degree in Biotechnological Engineering in 2007 from Koszalin University of Technology with the thesis focusing on recovery of native proteins from industrial waste streams using preparative ion-exchange chromatography. Subsequently she obtained a PhD in Technical Science (2012) from Gdańsk University of Technology for her research regarding environmental behaviour of imidazolium ionic liquids. During doctoral period she worked on interactions between surface active compounds, polyromantic hydrocarbons and natural organic matter at Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Olso, Norway and on interphase behaviour of ionic liquids at mineral surfaces in Advanced Ceramics Group, University of Bremen, Germany. She subsequently became a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Environmental Research and Sustainable Technologies (UFT), University of Bremen, Germany where she worked on proactive environmental hazard assessment of liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs). After completing her post-doctoral training, she became a research associate managing ecotoxicological laboratory at Sustainable Chemistry group, UFT, University of Bremen, Germany. Since 2017 she has been working as a research associate at the Institute of Water Chemistry, Technical University of Dresden, Germany where she supervises hazard assessment laboratory. Her research interests include: proactive and retrospective assessment of biodegradability, (eco)toxicity and bioaccumulation potential, interaction of organic compounds with soils, minerals and living cells and fate assessment of nanomaterials.