Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences

Theresa Piana - PhD Student

Address

Westring 2, Room 003
76829 Landau



Contact

Phone: +49 06341 280-31203
Mail: piana.theresa (at) rptu.de

 

Research interests

  • Human/environmental interactions
  • Nature conservation
  • Ecology of limnic systems
  • (Contextualizing of) impacts of climate change and anthropogenic influences on freshwater environments
  • Microplastic and its effects on aquatic ecosystems

Current research projects

SeKO

"Salt discharge by sewage treatment plants into surface waters: causes, developments and effects."

Personal

  • Since Jan 2022: PhD student in the working group Social-Ecological Systems at the University Koblenz-Landau, Landau
  • Jul 2020 – Dec 2021: Research Associate at the working group Geography and Regional Science at the Julius-Maximillians-University Würzburg, Würzburg
  • Oct 2015 – Jul 2019: Master of Science in Environmental Science at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Thesis: “Effects of irregularly shaped microplastics on the aquatic freshwater species Lumbriculus variegatus”)
  • Jan/Feb and May 2015: Internship at the Earth Observation Centre (Department of Remote Sensing), German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt – DLR)
  • Oct 2011 – Jun 2015: Bachelor of Science in Gepgraphy at the Julius-Maximillians-University Würzburg, Würzburg (Thesis: “Analysis of optical and electrical data from simulated volcanic eruptions generated with a pulse cannon – to help determine a model to predict the formation and development of volcanic ash clouds“)

  • Frieser, A., Bittlingmaier, S., Piana, T., Majewski, L. (2023): Ökonomische Bewertung des nachhaltigen Tourismus in deutschen Naturparken. In: Kühne, O., Sedelmeier, T., Jenal, C., Freytag, T. (eds) Landschaft und Tourismus. RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39085-3_11

  • Klein, Kristina; Piana, Theresa; Lauschke, Tim; Schweyen, Peter; Dierkes, Georg; Ternes, Thomas; Schulte-Oehlmann, Ulrike; Oehlmann, Jörg (2021): Chemicals associated with biodegradable microplastic drive the toxicity to the freshwater oligochaete Lumbriculus variegatus. In: Aquatic Toxicology. Vol. 231.