Head of the research group Environmental Analytics and Ecotoxicology
Head of the research laboratory
Research focus and key competences
- development of sensitive and precise analytical in situ methods for the direct measurement of the bioavailable fraction of organic contaminants in various environmental compartments
- fate and effect of environmental chemicals in organisms, sediments and water bodies
- aquatic ecotoxicology, weight-of-evidence approaches (combination of a macrozoobenthos analysis, in vitro biotests and chemical analysis)
- development and application of optimized biotest batteries for the analysis of biological/ecotoxicological effects of organic contaminants on benthic organisms (risk assessment)
Teaching
- Instrumental analytics
- Environmental assessments
- Environmental chemistry
- Applied environmental analysis and ecotoxicology
- Fundamentals of Chemistry
Scholarships and awards
- Heisenberg fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- state doctorate fellowship (habilitation) by the Ministry of Education, Sciene and Culture of the Federal State Government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- nominated AcademiaNet member by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
www.academia-net.org/profil/prof-dr-gesine-witt/1134152
Committees
- elected member of the DFG Review Board 318 Water Research
Membership Period 2016-2019 - member of the research board of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the HAW Hamburg
- Head of the research group Environmental Analytics and Ecotoxicology at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the HAW Hamburg
- since 2012 ombudsperson for the verification of good scientific practice at the HAW Hamburg
- from 2006 until 2015 member of the scientific committee for quality assurance in higher education programs and courses at Rostock University
- from 2005 until 2007 chairperson of the examinations board for the correspondence degree course Environmental Protection qualifying for the M.Sc. degree at Rostock University
- from 1992 until 1999 member of the Helsinki commission (HELCOM) for monitoring of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea. Coordination of German monitoring activities of crude oil hydrocarbons in the Baltic Sea on behalf of the German Federal Office for Maritime Navigation and Hydrography (Bundesamts für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie)
CV
seit 10/ 2017
Prodekanin für Forschung, Transfer und Weiterbildung der HAW Hamburg, Fakultät Life Sciences
seit 1/2016
DFG Fachkollegiatin im DFG Fachkollegium 318 Wasserforschung
seit 3/2007
Professorin für Umweltanalytik und Ökotoxikologie an der Hochschule fürAngewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW), Fakultät Life Sciences, Department Umwelttechnik
2004– 2005
Gastwissenschaftlerin am National Research Centre of Environmental Toxicology (EnTox) in Brisbane, Australien
2001– 2007
Heisenberg-Stipendiatin der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (Brisbane und Rostock-Warnemünde am Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung)
2001
Habilitation zum Thema “Eintrag, Transport und Verbleib von polycyclischen aromatischen Kohlenwasserstoffen in der Ostsee” an der Universität Rostock
2000 – 2001
Wissenschaftliche Projektmitarbeiterin an der Universität Rostock, Fachbereich Chemie
1997 – 2000
Habilitationsstipendiatin des Kultusministeriums Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (HSP III)
1995
Gastwissenschaftleraufenthalt am GSF Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit München (Neuherberg), Institut für Ökologische Chemie
1992 – 1997
Wissenschaftliche Projektmitarbeiterin am Institut für Ostseeforschung, Sektion Meereschemie, Arbeitsgruppe Organische Schadstoffe
1989 – 1991
Promotionsstudentin an der Universität Rostock
1983 – 1988
Diplomstudium der Chemie an der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald und an der Universität Rostock
