Professional summary

Carolin obtained her DPhil from Oxford University, UK in 2015 on the topic of silver nanoparticle ecotoxicology in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, as part of the Marie Curie ITN NanoTOES. Her BSc/MSc studies were in the field of Geoecology with a focus on ecotoxicology at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Carolin is an ecotoxicologist with specialism in the hazard and risk assessment of pollutants in the terrestrial environment and the effect of changing exposure conditions on uptake and toxicity. Her experience in experimental ecotoxicology ranges from the investigation of mechanisms underlying the toxicity of substances to nematodes to the design and running of a large scale terrestrial mesocosm experiments including multiple species. Her current work includes investigating the fate and transport of contaminants from biosolids in mesocosms. Carolin has conducted several systematic evidence reviews on risk assessment frameworks for nanoforms, biological effects of aquatic mixture and chemical concentrations and frequencies in biosolids.

Carolin also works on the UK Centre for Multimodal Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy (CoreMiS) platform, a RISE-EDS and Fluorescence Light Microscopy (RISE-EDS-LM) system dedicated to the analysis of environmental samples. UK Centre for Multimodal Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy (CoreMiS) | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Selected publications

Lahive E. et al. , (2021), A kinetic approach for assessing the uptake of Ag from pristine and sulfidised Ag nanomaterials to plants. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/etc.5031

Schultz Carolin L. et al. , (2021), What is on the outside matters — surface charge and dissolve organic matter association affect the toxicity and physiological mode of action of polystyrene nanoplastics to C. elegans. Environmental Science & Technology, 55, 6065-6075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c07121

Briffa Sophie M. et al. , (2020), Nanoparticle tracking analysis of gold nanoparticles in aqueous media through an inter-laboratory comparison. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 164, https://doi.org/10.3791/61741

Schultz Carolin L. et al. , (2020), Chemical transformation and surface functionalisation affect the potential to group nanoparticles for risk assessment. Environmental Science: Nano, 7, 3100-3107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D0EN00578A

Spurgeon David J. et al. , (2020), Nanomaterial transformations in the environment: effects of changing exposure forms on bioaccumulation and toxicity. Small, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202000618

Wamucho Anye et al. , (2019), Genomic mutations after multigenerational exposure of Caenorhabditis elegans to pristine and sulfidized silver nanoparticles. Environmental Pollution, 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113078

Schultz Carolin L. et al. , (2018), Influence of soil porewater properties on the fate and toxicity of silver nanoparticles to Caenorhabditis elegans. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/etc.4220

Schultz Carolin L. et al. , (2018), Aging reduces the toxicity of pristine but not sulphidised silver nanoparticles to soil bacteria. Environmental Science: Nano, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8EN00054A

Schultz Carolin L. et al. , (2016), Multigenerational exposure to silver ions and silver nanoparticles reveals heightened sensitivity and epigenetic memory in Caenorhabditis elegans. 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2911

Schultz Carolin et al. , (2015), Analytical approaches to support current understanding of exposure, uptake and distributions of engineered nanoparticles by aquatic and terrestrial organisms. 24, 239-261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10646-014-1387-3