Prof. Dr. Julia Bornhorst

Qualifications and Scientific Career

07/2023 – now           University of Wuppertal, Germany; Position: W3 Professorship for Food Chemistry with focus on Toxicology

03/2022                      Offer (“Ruf”) W3 Professorship for Food Chemistry; University of Potsdam, Germany; declined

1/2019 – 06/2023       University of Wuppertal, Germany; Position: W2 Professorship for Food Chemistry

10/2017 – 09/2018     University of Wuppertal, Germany; Position: Substitute W2 professor (“Vertretungsprofessorin”) for Food Chemistry

01/2014 – 12/2018     University of Potsdam, Germany; Position: “Habillitandin” (junior group leader) at the Institute of Nutritional Science

11/2013 – 12/2013     University of Münster (WWU Münster), Germany; Position: Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Tanja Schwerdtle

10/2012 – 10/2013     Department of Pediatrics and Toxicology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA; Position: Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Michael Aschner,

06/2012 – 09/2012     Member of the NRW Graduate School of Chemistry at the WWU Münster; Position: Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Tanja Schwerdtle

01/2009 – 06/2012    PhD thesis in the research group of Prof. Dr. Tanja Schwerdtle, Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Münster (WWU Münster), Germany

11/2008                      1st State Examination for Food Chemists, Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Münster (WWU Münster), Germany

03/2008 – 10/2008    Research thesis in the research group of Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Humpf, Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Münster (WWU Münster), Germany

10/2004 – 11/2008    Studies of Food Chemistry, Faculty 12, University of Münster (WWU Münster), Germany

Membership in Scientific Committees

since 2018     Member of the “Deutsche Hochschulverband”

since 2018     Member of the DFG Research Unit TraceAge (https://www.uni-potsdam.de/traceage/)

since 2015    Member of the Potsdam graduate school (Postdoc representative 04/2016 - 04/2018)

since 2012    German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT)

10/2011 – 10/2012    Student Member of the NRW Graduate School of Chemistry Committee

since 2009    Member of the German Society for Research on DNA Repair (DGDR)  

since 2009    Member of the Society of Food Chemistry (LChG/GDCh)

since 2009    Member of the German Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (GUM) (board member 2015 - 2021)

since 2009    Member of European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS)

since 2009    Member of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements (GMS) (board member since 2019 and vice president since 2022)

 

Important awards

• 05/2019    EEMGS Early Career Award of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS)
• 03/2016    “Young Toxicologist Merck Award” of the German Society of Toxicology (GT)
• 01/2014    Selected Member of the 16th Ernst Strüngmann Forum „ Heavy Metals and Infectious Diseases”
• 10/2013     Young Scientist Award of the German Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (GUM)
• 09/2012     Josef-Schormüller Award of the Society of Food Chemistry (LChG), part of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

 

Further engagement in the Research System

2023 – now                 Ombudsperson for issues of good scientific practice of the University of Wuppertal

2023 – now                 Guest of the Permanent Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area (MAK)

2022 – now                 Member of the taskforce UL (upper limit) – manganese of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

10/2021 – now           Co-Editor-in-Chief Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology

2022 – now                 Vice president of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements (GMS)

07/2020 – now           “Equal Opportunities Officer” of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Wuppertal