Schwarz
I am a doctoral researcher in the research group "Environmental Risks" at Helmholtz Munich and LMU. The focus of my work is on air pollution as one of the major health threats affecting both morbidity and mortality. Interesting aspects in this context are the negative health effects of air pollution, especially of the smallest particle size fractions (ultrafine particles), on cause-specific mortality and hospital admissions in Germany. Two other projects address temporal variations in the risk of different ambient air pollutants in an international multi-country and multi-city context, as well as their effects on structural changes in the human brain.