Dr. Andreas Mattern

Address:
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Building: 6.0
Room: 230
Phone: +49 341 6025 2859

Dr. Andreas Mattern

Research Interests

Assessment of the ecotoxicological effects of anthropogenic particles, including engineered nanomaterials, nano- and microplastics, particles resulting from combustion processes, as well as advanced and innovative materials.
Interactions between environmental organisms and anthropogenic particles: Analysis of adhesion, uptake, and distribution of these particles in living organisms.
Communication of science and risks regarding environmental safety of anthropogenic particles, based on information from the platform www.nanoobjects.info.

Curriculum vitae

Since 02/2019

Postdoc, Department of Ecotoxicology, UFZ Leipzig

Current Projects

FaPlaN - Investigation of ecotoxicological effects of fibrous and platelet-shaped advanced materials for deriving adapted testing strategies; 01.09.2023 - 31.08.2026

MANTRA - Data on innovative materials for sustainability and transfer
(Accompanying project to the Material Hub Initiative MaterialNeutral - Resource sovereignty through material innovations); 01.01.2024 - 30.06.2028

Completed Projects

“Helmholtz Enterprise” Field Study - ACTS (Alternative Chemical Testing Survey); 01.11.2023- 31.12.2023

“Helmholtz Enterprise” Field Study - The DaNa4.0 Knowledge Base – Development of a business model for self-sustaining continuation; 01.08.2023- 31.10.2023

DaNa4.0 - Data on new, innovative and safe application related materials; 01.03.2020 - 28.02.2023

NanoRigo - Establishing a NANOtechnology RIsk Governance Framework; 01.01.2019 - 28.02.2023

DaNa2.0 - Data and knowledge on Nanomaterials - Processing of socially relevant scientific facts

Publications

2020 - today

2023 (2)

Kühnel, D., Krug, H.F., Mattern, A., Jemec Kokalj, A. (2023):
Human and environmental hazard of nanomaterials used in textiles
In: Cornier, J., Pursche, F. (eds.)
Particle technology and textiles: Review of applications
De Gruyter STEM
De Gruyter, Berlin ; Boston, p. 343 - 372 10.1515/9783110670776-018
Nau, K., Espinoza, S., Krug, H.F., Marquardt, C., Mattern, A., Möller, N., Steinbach, C., Kühnel, D. (2023):
Knowledge Base Materials sustainable science communication on advanced materials
In: Scholz, S.G., Howlett, R.J., Setchi, R. (eds.)
Sustainable design and manufacturing. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM 2022)
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 338
Springer Nature, Singapore, p. 33 - 42 10.1007/978-981-19-9205-6_4

Department News

Staff News

ETOX PhD Student Nadia K. Herold and Postdoc David Leuthold honored at the 2024 Society of Toxicology Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Nadia’s research (use of multi-behavioral fingerprints to identify neuroactive environmental chemicals) was honored with four awards including the Molecular and Systems Biology Specialty Section Graduate Student Research Award and the renowned Carl C. Smith Graduate Student Award and also recognized by the Toshio Narahashi Trainee Conference Endowment Award.
David's research (identifying and elucidating the mechanisms of chemicals that disrupt non-associative learning using a novel multi-behavioral assay battery in larval zebrafish) earned three awards including the Molecular and Systems Biology Specialty Section Postdoctoral Scholar Research Award, the Neurotoxicology Specialty Section Toshio Narahashi Postdoctoral Scholar Poster Competition Award and the Mechanisms Specialty Section Sheldon D. Murphy Postdoctoral Endowment Award.

ETOX PhD Student Nadia Herold, Postdoc David Leuthold and mentor Prof. Dr. Tamara Tal at the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Meeting in Salt Lake City, USA.

Projekte

The goal of PrecisionTox is to improve chemical safety assessment to better protect human health and the environment by using non-traditional test species, multiple fields of knowledge, and powerful computational approaches to understand which chemicals are toxic and why.

https://precisiontox.org/

With MANTRA - data on innovative materials for sustainability and transfer - the BMBF is funding a scientific communication project for 3.5 years from January 2024 for networking, public relations and the development of indicators for sustainability as well as industry/practice transfer. These topics will be communicated via a website, brochures and information flyers using an interdisciplinary approach. In addition to the UFZ, the project consortium consists of the partners DECHEMA (coordination), KIT, TU Berlin and the subcontractor NanoCASE.

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PlasticsFatE - Plastics Fate and Effects in the human body aims at improving our present understanding of the impact of micro- and nano-plastics (MP/NP) and associated additives/adsorbed contaminants (A/C) in the human body. To do so, reliable and validated methods will be developed that are able to generate the science-based data we need. PlasticsFatE is a 48-month project funded by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme of the European Union. The project will run from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2025.

https://www.plasticsfate.eu