Caroline Gebert

Caroline joined the cell toxicology department in March 2024. She holds a bachelor's degree in environmental sciences from the Leuphana University Lüneburg. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Institute for Sustainable Chemistry and the Social-Ecological Systems Institute. She completed an internship in the Chemistry Transport Modeling department at the Helmholtz Centre Hereon. Her bachelor's thesis focused on the biodegradable redesign of fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Between her bachelor's and master's degrees, she worked for Cradle to Cradle NGO in Berlin where she had previously been active as a volunteer for the regional group in Lüneburg. She continued her studies with a master's degree in ecotoxicology and environmental management at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien.

For her master's thesis, she developed a high-throughput in vitro toxicity test at the cell toxicology department at UFZ for the detection of chromosomal genotoxicity (OECD TG 487) in environmental samples using high-content fluorescence microscopy. Afterwards she worked as a research assistant to investigate whether the effect measured in the bioassay was induced by a DNA-reactive mode of action.

Since August 2025, she has been part of the department's human biomonitoring working group. Caroline independently developed her doctoral thesis topic about the effect-based characterisation of the prenatal chemical exposure by analysing tooth extracts and was additionally employed as a research assistant at University of Leipzig Medical Center in 2025. The project is being carried out in collaboration with the German Centre for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ).