Analysis of internal exposure of organisms such as invertebrates and fish with chemical mixtures

Chemical mixtures from water, sediments and soil are taken up by organisms that are in contact with these media resulting in an internal exposure called exposome, which may cause adverse effects. We develop and apply analytical and assessment tools to quantify this exposome. 

A major focus is on understanding the exposome of fish (Dann et al., 2025) and aquatic invertebrates (Muschket et al., 2021; Shahid et al., 2018) and explain impacts on fitness, sensitivity (Švara et al., 2021), genetic diversity (Švara et al., 2022) and the interaction with parasites (Soose et al., 2025) in collaboration with Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main. The concept is also applied to terrestrial organisms such as bumblebees, for example in the new project SafePol.