Diana Eckstein
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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstrasse 15
04318 Leipzig
About Diana Eckstein
Diana Eckstein received her doctorate in environmental toxicology from the Faculty of Medicine at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in 2024. Since 2023 she has been working at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research UFZ in the Department of Technical Biogeochemistry. She is part of the Spatially Resolved Analytics working group.
| Since 2023 | Research associate at the UFZ |
| 2024 | Doctorate at the Medical Faculty of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Environmental Toxicology |
| 2018-2023 | Research assistant at the Medical Faculty of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute for Environmental Toxicology |
| 2018 | Microbiologist at Eurofins in Leipzig |
| 2025-2017 | Student assistant at Leipzig University Hospital, Department of Virology |
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2014-2016 |
Master of Science in Biology at the University of Leipzig |
| 2011-2014 | Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry at the University of Leipzig |
Aerosol research
- Assessment of toxic substances (especially nanoparticles) that are absorbed into the body via the airways
- Spread of viruses via the air and development of disinfection strategies (BeCoLe project)
- Cultivation and aerosolization of viruses and bacteriophages
- Determination of viable viruses and bacteriophages after aerosolization
- Fluorescence microscopy of viruses and bacteriophages after aerosolization
- High-resolution microscopy of viruses and bacteriophages after aerosolization
Publications
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2025 (1)
- Nasrabadi, A.M., Eckstein, D., Mettke, P., Ghanem, N., Kallies, R., Schmidt, M., Mothes, F., Schaefer, T., Graefe, R., Bandara, C.D., Maier, M., Liebert, U.G., Richnow, H., Hermann, H. (2025):
A virus aerosol chamber study: The impact of UVA, UVC, and H2O2 on airborne viral transmission
Environ. Health 10.1021/envhealth.4c00215
Publications before joining UFZ
M.J. Küstner, D. Eckstein, D. Brauer, P. Mai., J. Hampl, F. Weise, B. Schumann, G. Hause, F. Glahn, H. Foth and A. Schober,
Modular air-liquid interface aerosol exposure system (MALIES) to study toxicity of nanoparticle aerosols in 3D-cultured A549 cells in vitro,
Archives of Toxicology 98, 1061-1080 (2024)
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-023-03673-3
P. Mai, J. Hampl,. M. Baca, D. Brauer, S. Singh, F. Weise, J. Borowiec, A. Schmidt, J.M. Küstner, M. Klett, M. Gebinoga, I.S. Schroeder, U.R. Markert, F. Glahn, B. Schumann, D. Eckstein and A. Schober,
MatriGrid® Based Biological Morphologies: Tools for 3D Cell Culturing,
Bioengineering 9(5), 220 (2022)
DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering9050220