Dr. Naroa Lopez-Herguedas

Address:
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig

Building: 6.1
Room: 105
Phone: +49 341 6025 3143

Naroa Lopez-Herguedas

Naroa has started as a postdoctoral guest researcher in the Department of Cellular Toxicology in February 2024. In January 2024, she was awarded with a grant funded by the Basque Government to expand her postdoctoral research in collaboration with the IBeA Research Group of the University of the Basque Country and our department. She will carry out her research integrating effect-based and analytical methodologies for the risk assessment of emerging pollutants in the environment-food-human continuum.

During her PhD at the University of the Basque Country, in the field of environmental contamination and toxicology, she evaluated the presence and potential impact of contaminants of emerging concern in aqueous ecosystems using different analytical techniques such as liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) as well as working with different bioassays to identify cause-effect relationships following an effect-directed analysis strategy.

Department News

Staff News

Congratulations to our Julia Huchthausen on successfully passing her doctoral thesis defence!

Your hard work, perseverance and passion for research have paid off. Not only have you achieved an intellectual feat, but you have also taken an important step in your scientific career.

Hot Papers

Congratulations to Weiping Qin for designing an awesome front cover for this weeks ES&T (link) together with an excellent article on the baseline toxicity prediction of PFAS toxicity and identification of specific effects (link)

New partnership

We will start a collaboration with Prof., Kathrin Fenner at Eawag and Uni Zürich and Prof. Kjell Jorner of ETHZ with a a new project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on the development of environmentally friendly chemicals at the crossroads of chemical, computer, environmental and health science. More info at Link

Staff News

We farewell Dr. Jungen Lee who worked with Celltox for 6 years, completing a PhD and a postdoc and bringing us up to speed with imaging in high-throughput assays. On the day of her farewell a new paper appeared in ES&T on a novel high throughput assay that combines mitochondrial toxicity and oxidative stress response (link) with applications for risk assessment of chemicals and water quality monitoring. All the best to you Jungeun for your future endeavours. We will miss you!

Final Theses

We are now offering experimental theses again.
If you are interested in writing your Bachelor or Master Thesis at the department of Cell Toxicology you can contact Beate Escher or you can express your interest by clicking here.