Prof. Dr. Julia Bornhorst

Qualifications and Scientific Career

• 03/2022    Offer (“Ruf”) W3 Professorship for Food Chemistry University of Potsdam, Germany declined
• 10/2021    Co-Editor-in-Chief Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology
• Since 1/2019    W2 Professorship for Food Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Wuppertal, Germany
• 05/2018    Offer (“Ruf”) W2 Professorship for Food Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Wuppertal, Germany
• 10/2017 – 09/2018    Substitute W2 professor (“Vertretungsprofessorin”) for Food Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Wuppertal, Germany
• 01/2014 – 12/2018    “Habillitandin” (junior group leader) at the Institute of Nutritional Science, Department of Food Chemistry (Head Prof. Dr. Tanja Schwerdtle), University of Potsdam, Germany
• 11/2013 – 12/2013    Postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Prof. Dr. Tanja Schwerdtle, Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Münster (WWU Münster), Germany
• 10/2012 – 10/2013    Postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Prof. Dr. Michael Aschner, Department of Pediatrics and Toxicology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA
• 06/2012 – 09/2012    Member of the NRW Graduate School of Chemistry as postdoctoral researcher
• 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)