Prof. Andrea Hartwig received her Diploma in Chemistry in 1984, finished her PhD thesis in 1987, and her Habilitation in Biochemistry at the University of Bremen in 1996. In 1998, she became a Professor of Food Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), and in 2004, she became a Full Professor of Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2010, she has been a Full Professor and Chair for Food Chemistry and Toxicology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Her main research focuses on the impact of carcinogenic metal compounds, including metal-based nanomaterials, on genomic stability, with special emphasis on DNA damage induction and the effects on DNA repair, gene expression, cell cycle control, tumor suppressor functions, and epigenetic alterations. Andrea Hartwig is also actively involved in chemical risk assessment. Among other activities, she is Chair of the German MAK Commission and Co-opted member of the Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). She is the author of more than 200 scientific publications and received several awards for her research in the field of metal toxicology and its impact on scientific risk assessment.
