Dr. Jochen Zubrod
Aquatic Stress Ecology
Team leader “Aquatic Stress Ecology”
Functions
- Advisory Service (M.Sc. Ecotoxicology)
- Head of Stable Isotope Lab
Research Interests
- Trophic ecology of aquatic ecosystems
- Effects of (chemical) stressors (e.g. pesticides, nanoparticles, semiochemicals) in these environments
Current Research Projects
- Effects of antimicrobial compounds on aquatic macroinvertebrates via bottom-up regulation (AQUA-REG); funded by German Research Foundation
- Upper Rhine Trinational Graduate Academy Security-Risk-Orientation (SERIOR); funded by the European Union
Former Research Project
Impact of organic and inorganic fungicides on leaf litter breakdown processes in streams mediated by decomposer-detritivore-systems (funded by the Scholarship Programme of the German Federal Environmental Foundation)
Teaching
- Stress & Disturbance Ecology
- Toxicology Lab Course
- Quantitative Experimental Ecology
- Assessment and Monitoring of Effects
- Univariate statistics
Academic History
- Since 2016: Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
- 2011-2016: PhD student at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
- 2011: M.Sc. (Ecotoxicology) at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany (Thesis: Ecotoxicological impact of the fungicide tebuconazole on an aquatic decomposer-detritivore system)
- 2010: B.Sc. (Env.Sci.) at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany (Thesis: Effects of subchronic fungicide exposure on the energy processing of Gammarus fossarum (Crustacea; Amphipoda))
Additional functions
- Board member of SETAC German Language Branch (GLB) since December 2016; currently vice-president
- Editorial board member of "Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology“, since January 2014
Publications
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