Karla Schmitz

Karla works as a scientist at the Department Exposure Science at the UFZ.

Between her bachelor's degree in biology and her master's degree in ecotoxicology, both at RWTH Aachen, she did an internship at the UFZ in 2022, which was her first point of contact with the research center.
In February 2024, she returned to investigate the contamination of river sediments with hydrophobic organic pollutants as part of her master's thesis. For that, she compared the total extractable concentration with the bioavailable one, which was determined by using passive samplers.

Since August 2024 she has been part of the P-LEACH project. Her interest is the potential leaching of plastic additives in simulated human digestive fluids.