INSTITUTE:

UNU-EHS

OFFICE:

Environmental Vulnerability & Ecosystem Services Section

E-MAIL:

braun@ehs.unu.edu

NATIONALITY:

Germany

Research Interests

• Climate Change
• Environmental Pollution & Food Safety

Education

• MSc., Agricultural Crop science, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Germany
• BSc., Agricultural Science, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Germany

Biographical Statement

Ms. Gianna Braun is a Visiting scientist, completing her PhD thesis within the DeltAdapt project at the UNU-EHS. She holds a Masters Degree in agricultural science with a focus on plant science.

During her masters study at the University of Bonn, she developed a deeper knowledge in the field of soil science including soil chemistry and soil ecology.

Ms. Braun’s research interests focus on the concentration and application rates as well as on the fates of pesticides and antibiotics used in agriculture and aquaculture and the changes of these rates and fates due to increasing salinity intrusion and salinity driven land use changes in the coastal areas of the Red River and Mekong Delta, Vietnam.