Tanja Brandt, MSc ETH
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: 0341 235 1996
tanja.brandt@ufz.de

Research interests
Oxygen dynamics at the sediment-water interface of streams:
- Further development of optical sensing technology for continuous O2 mapping in situ
- Time series analysis of O2 dynamics and its effects on biogeochemical reaction rates
Current project
Marie Curie Initial Training Network INTERFACES:
Ecohydrological Interfaces as critical hotspots for transformations of ecosystem exchange fluxes
duration 2013 - 2017
INTERFACES Project website
CV
since
Jan 2018
Research fellow at the University of Rostock, working group Landscape Ecology and Site Evaluation
since
Aug 2017
Research Assistant at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Hydrogeology
since
Aug 2014
PhD student at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, department Hydrogeology
Nov 2013 -
Feb 2014
Research fellow at Eawag, department of Environmental Toxicology
Sep 2011 -
Jun 2014
Master of Science ETH in Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich
Major: Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics
Dez 2009 -
Jul 2011
Project manager, PTRM Mittelrhein GmbH
Nov 2008 -
Jan 2009
Guest scientist at Volcani Center, Israel
Apr 2006 -
Dez 2009
Bachelor of Science in Ecological Impact Assessment, University of Koblenz-Landau
Publications
Kosak L., Brandt T., Sigg l., Behra R., 2018. Uptake and effects of cerium(III) and cerium oxide nanoparticles to Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Aquat. Toxicol. 197, 41-46.
Brandt T., Vieweg M., Laube G., Schima R., Goblirsch T., Fleckenstein J.H., Schmidt C., 2017. Automated in situ oxygen profiling at aquatic-terrestrial interfaces. Environ. Sci. Technol., doi: 10.1021/acs.est.7b01482
Baranov V., Milosevic D., Kurz M.J., Zarnetske J.P., Sabater F., Marti E., Robertson A., Brandt T., Sorolla A., Lewandowski J., Krause S., 2017. Helophyte impacts on the response of hyporheic invertebrate communities to inundation. Ecohydrol., doi: 10.1002/eco.1857
Roehder, L.A., Brandt, T., Sigg, L., Behra, R., 2014. Influence of agglomeration of cerium oxide nanoparticles and speciation of cerium(III) on short term effects to the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Aquat. Toxicol. 152, 121-130.
Conference Contributions
Brandt T., Vieweg M., Schmidt C., Fleckenstein J.H. "Spatio-temporal Oxygen Dynamics in Gravel Bars under Varying Hydrological Conditions" AGU Fall Meeting 2016, 12-16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA (presentation)Schima R., Goblirsch T., Paschen M., Francyk B., Bumberger J., Dietrich P., Rubin Y., Rinke K., Fleckenstein J.H., Schmidt C., Vieweg M., Brandt T. "Geosfear? - Overcoming System Boundaries by Open-Source Based Monitoring of Spatio-Temporal Processes" AGU Fall Meeting 2016, 12-16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA (poster)
Harjung A., Brandt T., Vieweg M., Buttorini A., Schmidt C., Fleckenstein J.H., Sabater F. "Capturing Hot Moments of Carbon Cycling in the Hyporheic Zone of an Intermittent Stream" AGU Fall Meeting 2016, 12-16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA (poster)
Brandt T., Vieweg M., Harjung A., Fleckenstein J.H., Schmidt C. "In Situ Hyporheic Oxygen Dynamics during Drought Revealed by Novel Optical Sensing Technology" European Hyporheic Forum, 24 June 2016, Berlin, Germany (poster)
Brandt, T., Vieweg, M., Harjung A., Fleckenstein J.H., Schima R., Schmidt C. "A New Optical Oxygen Sensor for Monitoring Spatio-Temporal Oxygen Dynamics at Highly Reactive Aquatic Interfaces" europt(r)ode XIII, 20-23 March 2016, Graz, Austria (poster)
Brandt T., Vieweg M., Harjung A., Fleckenstein J.H., Schmidt C. "A New Optical Oxygen Sensor Reveals Spatial and Temporal Variations of Dissolved Oxygen at Ecohydrological Interfaces" AGU Fall Meeting 2015, 14-18 December 2015, San Francisco, USA (poster)