Diana Masch

Address:
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Building: 7.3
Room: 2.038
Phone: +49 341 6025 3467

Diana Masch

Research Interests

Optimization and standardization of mass spectrometry data processing workflows

Data processing, curation and integration for MassBank EU

Statistical Analysis of high-dimensional -omics Data (Metabolomics, Metagenomics, Proteomics, Transcriptomics)

Curriculum Vitae

since 2025

Research Scientist, Department of Exposure Science, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

2021 - 2025

Master of Science, Institute of Biology, Martin-Luther-Universität – MLU, Halle (Saale), Germany

2022 - 2023

Research assistant, Department Entomology & Plant Defense Physiology, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology – MPI, Jena, Germany

2022

Research assistant, Department Population Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University – FSU, Jena, Germany

2021 - 2022

Research assistant, Department of Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany

2020 - 2021

Research assistant, Department of Bioinformatics & Scientific Data, Leipniz Insitute for Plant Biochemistry – IPB, Halle (Saale), Germany

2021

Research assistant, Department of Ecosystems of the Future, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany

Publications

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Diana-Masch

Awards

2021 Katharina-Heinroth-Award, Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde (founded 1773), Berlin, Germany

2010 – 2012 Scholarship “Studienkompass”, Accenture-Foundation, the Deutsche Bank Foundation and German Economy Foundation, Berlin, Germany

News

The global plastics treaty can be saved - here´s how to break the deadlock.
Check out this new published article on nature.com - co-authored by Annika Jahnke.

In November 2025, a workshop on the Planetary Boundary of Novel Entities was held at UFZ. Experts discussed challenges in assessing this complex boundary and identified key needs for clearer criteria, governance, monitoring, and communication. The workshop was accompanied by Bastian Worrmann and here is the result.

What a wonderful recognition of his outstanding support for our doctoral students. Martin Krauss was recently awarded the UFZ Supervision Award. Well deserved Martin!

In September 2025 the "Global Seminar: Solutions for the ONE WORLD" was held with 30 international scientists in the field of chemical monitoring with a specific focus on the Global South and the establishment of a sustainable network to find solutions to pollution all over the world.

Annika Jahnke, Dana Kühnel and Christian Schmidt recently wrote a very interesting article on the Bertelsmann Stiftung's “transforming economies” blog entitled “Mehr als Müll: Warum Plastik auch zu Klimawandel und Artenverlust beiträgt” (only available in German).

Press releases

In the large-scale P-LEACH project, experts from four research institutes of the Helmholtz Association have now precisely analysed the composition and concentrations of many different substances. The main focus was how the sun's UV radiation increases the release of chemicals.