Carolin Völker has been a research scientist at ISOE since 2014 and led the SÖF junior research group PlastX together with Johanna Kramm from 2016 to 2021. Carolin Völker is a private lecturer at the Department of Biosciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity. Her work focuses on the effects of chemical substances on ecosystems, assessment, communication and perception of environmental risks, and systemic approaches to environmental risk assessment. She studied biology at the University of Frankfurt am Main and graduated in 2009 with a diploma in ecotoxicology. Her doctoral thesis was on the topic of “Ecotoxicological characterisation of silver nanoparticles – A contribution to the hazard assessment of nanomaterials”. The topic of her habilitation, which she completed in 2022, was “Environmental Impacts of Microplastics: Ecotoxicological Assessment and Systemic Analysis”.
Focus of research
- Effects of chemical substances on ecosystems
- Assessment, communication and perception of environmental risks
- Systemic approaches to environmental risk assessment
Projects
- AquaticPollutantsTransNet – Knowledge transfer for the reduction of pollutants and pathogens in the water cycle
- Biodiversity and Climate: Socio-ecological Biodiversity Research
- ChemKom – Strategic science communication on the risks of perpetuity chemicals
- gwTriade – Integrative monitoring of groundwater quality
- NormA – Normative Conflicts in the Field of Biodiversity
- RobustNature – Robustness of Nature-Society Systems in the Anthropocene
- Scientific support for the Frankfurt project “Smart Water Management”
- KREIS – Innovative municipal wastewater system in ‘Jenfelder Au’
- NiddaMan – Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Nidda Catchment Area
- PLASTRAT – Reduction of plastic discharges in lakes and running waters
- PlastX – Microplastics in bodies of running water
- PlastX – Packaging and sustainable consumption
- SAUBER+ Innovative concepts for wastewater from public health sector facilities
- Conflicts of objectives between the application of medications and environmental protection