Leonie obtained her master's degree in "Environmental Science and Technology" from the Technical University of Berlin, specializing in environmental chemistry and water quality. In her master's thesis, she developed a model in Python for the fate of trace substances from stormwater discharges, in order to estimate their concentrations in Danish watercourses after rainfall events and thus their ecotoxicological impacts. Since March 2024, Leonie has been working as a research associate in our working group, focusing on the exposure and effects of pesticides in aquatic ecosystems. Her focus is on modeling pesticide concentrations and effects in watercourses based on land use, different application scenarios, environmental parameters, and substance properties.

Curriculum vitae

since 03/2024
scientist at the Department Ecotoxicology of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ

08/2023 - 02/2024
project engineer at p2m berlin GmbH

04/2020 - 11/2022
M.Sc. Environmental Science and Technology at the Technical University Berlin

04/2022 - 09/2022
Master thesis at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). master thesis title: "A simple chemical fate model to assess short-term impacts of micropollutants from wet weather discharges on Danish streams"

10/2015 - 07/2020
B.Sc. Environmental Science and Technology at the Technical University Berlin. bachelor thesis title: "Untersuchungen zum Einfluss des Iodierungsgrades auf die allgemeine biologische Abbaubarkeit von aromatischen, iodierten Substanzen"

09/2017 - 08/2018
study abroad at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the study program "Sciences et ingénierie de l'environnement"