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The
UFZ Centre for Environmental Research belongs to the Hermann
von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
and is the only HGF centre of which the work is allocated
entirely to environmental sciences. Besides various disciplines
in the natural sciences, the P6 (UFZ) covers also environmental
medicine, ecological economy and social sciences, with a total
staff of around 650 people. Both basic and applied researches are
conducted at the P6 (UFZ), which has 23 scientific departments.
The research programme has the following five key areas: (1)
Industrial landcapes, (2) development and regeneration of inland
waters, (3) urban ecology and development, (4) biodiversity, land
use and resource protection, and (5) environmental technology and
biotechnology. Since its foundation in 1992, the UFZ has
participated in 37 EU-funded R&D projects, with 12 as
coordinator. Within the Fifth Framework Programme of the EU, the
UFZ participates in 15 projects, coordinating 6 of them.
The
team leader of the Partner 6 Gerrit Schüürmann
heads the Department of Chemical Ecotoxicology, which includes
ca. 35 co-workers in the three research groups exposure analysis,
mode-of-action analysis and effect propagation. In addition, the
Department of Analytics will be involved, with Rainer Wennrich
as head. The Department of Chemial Ecotoxicology aims at
unravelling mechanisms of deleterious effects of chemical
substances, and at deriving assessment criteria for their
ecotoxicological potential in the field. The experimental and
theoretical studies focus on two complementary approaches: In the
substance-oriented approach, single compounds, mixtures and
environmental samples are analyzed with respect to their
biological activities and underlying modes of toxic action. The
effect propagation on higher levels of biological organization is
considered in the system-oriented approach, where the stress
response of communities in the field is studied in terms of
reaction patterns and interactions. The link between effect
parameters and exposure parameters as well as underlying compound
properties enables the development of strategies for a
process-oriented risk assessment of contaminations in the field.
which aims at unravelling mechanisms of deleterious effects of
chemical substances and compound mixtures, and at deriving
assessment criteria for their ecotoxicological potential in the
field. The staff includes biologists, chemists and physicists,
and is equipped with modern laboratories as well as sophisticated
outdoor facilities.
Since its foundation, the UFZ has
participated in ca. EU-funded projects and numerous other third
party-funded national and international research projects. It
participates in European-wide networks in the environmental
sciences, and excellent laboratory facilities, and offers
opportunities for running masters and PhD studies in a wide range
of subjects. Due to its infrastructure and staff of about 650
co-workers and its focus on environmental sciences, it is well
prepared to participate in the envisaged.
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