Dr. Elisa Rojo Nieto
Adresse:
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Gebäude: 6.0
Raum: 210b
Telefon: +49 341 6025-1567
elisa.rojo-nieto@ufz.de
Elisa joined the UFZ in September 2017. She has been part of the ERC project: “CHEMO-RISK”. Within this project, she focused on the development of “chemometers” (understood as a common and well-defined reference phase for passive equilibrium sampling in different phases) to broaden the scope and the applicability domain of current passive sampling devices and to study which processes drive the enrichment of pollutants in aquatic biota on a thermodynamic basis. In addition, she has been also part of the BMBF funded project "MICRO-FATE", where she was responsible of the analysis of pollutants in marine water and plastic samples (blog). Since 2020, she is involved in the HGF project "EXPOSO-METER", where she explores which processes drive the bioaccumulation of pollutants in top predators (incl. humans) on a thermodynamic basis. She is currently main supervisor of two PhD students and advisor of two junior postdocs. Since 2022 she is elected member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the UFZ and since 2024 she is part of the editorial board of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry journal.
She completed her Ph. D. in the program Marine Environment: Science and Sustainable Development at the University of Cadiz, studying the fate and effect of hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs) in the marine environment. Amongst others, she has proposed the use of passive sampling and dosing to 1) reconstitute complex environmental mixtures of HOCs in toxicity tests and 2) use freely dissolved concentrations in pore water and specific biota-to-sediment accumulation factors to estimate concentrations of HOCs in target organs of fish.
Besides her dedication to research and academia, she has also been working (2012-2013) as head of the analytical laboratory and related projects in CTAQUA (Andalusian Aquaculture Technological Centre, Spain). Furthermore she was a member of the coordination team of the International Campus of Excellence of the Sea, CEIMAR (2013-2016)
2025 (1)
- Muz, M., Jahnke, A., Rojo-Nieto, E. (2025):
Extraction, cleanup and recovery of trace organic pollutants in biota
In: Barceló, D., Pico, Y. (eds.)
Sample handling and trace analysis of pollutants: Innovations to determine organic contaminants (Second edition)
Elsevier Science, Oxford, p. 65 - 134 10.1016/B978-0-323-85601-0.00014-X
2024 (1)
- Rojo-Nieto, E., Wernicke, T., Muz, M., Jahnke, A. (2024):
From trophic magnification factors to multimedia activity ratios: chemometers as versatile tools to study the fate of hydrophobic organic compounds in aquatic ecosystems
Environ. Sci. Technol. 58 (47), 21046 - 21057 10.1021/acs.est.4c07940
2023 (5)
- Carmona, E., Rojo-Nieto, E., Rummel, C.D., Krauss, M., Syberg, K., Ramos, T.M., Brosche, S., Backhaus, T., Carney Almroth, B. (2023):
A dataset of organic pollutants identified and quantified in recycled polyethylene pellets [Dataset]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.8367104 - Carmona, E., Rojo-Nieto, E., Rummel, C.D., Krauss, M., Syberg, K., Ramos, T.M., Brosche, S., Backhaus, T., Carney Almroth, B. (2023):
A dataset of organic pollutants identified and quantified in recycled polyethylene pellets
Data Brief 51 , art. 109740 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109740 - Reiter, E.B., Escher, B.I., Rojo-Nieto, E., Nolte, H., Siebert, U., Jahnke, A. (2023):
Characterizing the marine mammal exposome by iceberg modeling, linking chemical analysis and in vitro bioassays
Environ. Sci.-Process Impacts 25 (11), 1802 - 1816 10.1039/D3EM00033H - Rojo-Nieto, E., Jahnke, A. (2023):
Chemometers: an integrative tool for chemical assessment in multimedia environments
Chem. Commun. 59 (22), 3193 - 3205 10.1039/D2CC06882F - Rojo-Nieto, E., Jahnke, A. (2023):
Inside front cover: Chemometers: an integrative tool for chemical assessment in multimedia environments (ChemCom 22/2023)
Chem. Commun. 59 (22), 3150 - 3150 10.1039/D3CC90094K
2022 (1)
- Wernicke, T., Rojo-Nieto, E., Paschke, A., Nogueira Tavares, C., Brauns, M., Jahnke, A. (2022):
Exploring the partitioning of hydrophobic organic compounds between water, suspended particulate matter and diverse fish species in a German river ecosystem
Environ. Sci. Eur. 34 , art. 66 10.1186/s12302-022-00644-w
2021 (3)
- Arp, H.P.H., Kühnel, D., Rummel, C., MacLeod, M., Potthoff, A., Reichelt, S., Rojo-Nieto, E., Schmitt-Jansen, M., Sonnenberg, J., Toorman, E., Jahnke, A. (2021):
Weathering plastics as a planetary boundary threat: Exposure, fate, and hazards
Environ. Sci. Technol. 55 (11), 7246 - 7255 10.1021/acs.est.1c01512 - González-Fernández, D., Cózar, A., Hanke, G., Viejo, J., Morales-Caselles, C., Bakiu, R., Barceló, D., Bessa, F., Bruge, A., Cabrera, M., Castro-Jiménez, C., Constant, M., Crosti, R., Galletti, Y., Kideys, A.E., Machitadze, N., de Brito, J.P., Pogojeva, M., Ratola, N., Rigueira, J., Rojo-Nieto, E., Savenko, O., Schöneich-Argent, R.I., Siedlewicz, G., Suaria, G., Tourgeli, M. (2021):
Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean
Nat. Sustain. 4 (6), 474 - 483 10.1038/s41893-021-00722-6 - Muz, M., Rojo-Nieto, E., Jahnke, A. (2021):
Removing disturbing matrix constituents from biota extracts from total extraction and silicone-based passive sampling
Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 40 (10), 2693 - 2704 10.1002/etc.5153
2019 (1)
- Rojo-Nieto, E., Muz, M., Koschorreck, J., Rüdel, H., Jahnke, A. (2019):
Passive equilibrium sampling of hydrophobic organic compounds in homogenised fish tissues of low lipid content
Chemosphere 220 , 501 - 504 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.12.134
2018 (1)
- Varela, J.L., Rojo-Nieto, E., Sorell, J.M., Medina, A. (2018):
Using stable isotope analysis to assess trophic relationships between Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) and striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) in the Strait of Gibraltar
Mar. Environ. Res. 139 , 57 - 63 10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.04.016
2017 (1)
- Sánchez-Nieva, J., Perales, J.A., González-Leal, J.M., Rojo-Nieto, E. (2017):
A new analytical technique for the extraction and quantification of microplastics in marine sediments focused on easy implementation and repeatability
Anal. Methods 9 (45), 6371 - 6378 10.1039/c7ay01800b