Team > M.Sc. Jakob Oster

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Chair Animal Ecology I

PhD candidate

PhD project: CRC1357 Microplastic | Subproject B06 | Development of detection and visualisation methods for microplastics in soilsn

Microplastic is discussed as an omnipresent stressor for environment and health. Corresponding research has initially focused on marine systems, followed by limnic, terrestrial and atmospheric systems. The methods used for microplastic analysis so far have produced data of variable quality. That is because there is a lack of reliable, validated methods and standard operating procedures. This particularly relates to ground systems. Notwithstanding the analysis of ground systems is of great importance. They are an important key area in environmental microplastic transport and represent a sink for microplastic particles. Thus, I work on the development of reliable techniques and standard operating procedures for detection, quantification and visualization of microplastic particles in soils. Since soil organisms can contribute to microplastic distribution, correspondingly developed in-situ analysis techniques are applied to the investigation of species-specific microplastic distribution in soils, as currently no insights are available in this area. This way I will provide reliable and efficient methods for microplastic analysis and clarify aspects of the abundance and distribution of microplastic particles in soils.

For more information see also the homepage of the CRC 1357 Microplastic

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Chair Animal Ecology I

Master in Molecular Ecology

PhD candidate Animal Ecology | Supervisor Prof. Dr. Christian Laforsch, Dr. Martin Löder

Research Interests: Animal Ecology, Limnology, Biodiversity, Animal Behaviour, Statistics, Bioinformatics

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Chair Animal Ecology I

Publications

2024

Ryan Bartnick, Andrei Rodionov, Simon David Jakob Oster, Martin G. J. Löder, Eva Lehndorff: Plastic Quantification and Polyethylene Overestimation in Agricultural Soil Using Large-Volume Pyrolysis and TD-GC-MS/MS. In: Environmental Science & Technology, 58 (2024). - S. 13047-13055.
doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c10101

2022

Julia N. Möller, Ingrid Heisel, Anna Satzger, Eva Cseperke Vizsolyi, Simon David Jakob Oster, Seema Agarwal, Christian Laforsch, Martin G. J. Löder: Tackling the Challenge of Extracting Microplastics from Soils : A Protocol to Purify Soil Samples for Spectroscopic Analysis. In: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 41 (2022). - S. 844-857.
doi:10.1002/etc.5024

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Chair Animal Ecology I

M.Sc. Jakob Oster
Doktorand

Chair Animal Ecology I
Building NWI, Room 5.0 01 49
University of Bayreuth
Universitätsstr. 30
95440 Bayreuth
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 921 55 4314
Fax: +49 (0) 921 55 2784

E-mail: simon.oster@uni-bayreuth.de
ResearchGate: M.Sc. Jakob Oster