Zofia Baumann

Associate Research Professor

UConn Department of Marine Sciences

After completing her undergraduate degree and MS at the Agricultural University of Szczecin (Poland; presently West Pomeranian University of Technology), Zofia Baumann pursued her Ph.D. at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University (SBU; NY, USA) graduating in May of 2011. She continued at SBU as a postdoc until May of 2014, where she expanded her research scope from experimental radioecology and application of sodium iodide detectors to environmental radioactivity by investigating the aftermath of the Fukushima Disaster that occurred in the spring of 2011 using high purity of germanium (HPGe) detectors. While in her postdoc at SBU, she also began a new research direction to explore geographic patterns in methylmercury (MeHg) bioaccumulation in forage fish. In 2014, she joined the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut (UConn), where she further expanded her efforts to study the mercury (Hg) cycling in aquatic ecosystems including, rivers, estuaries and coastal ocean.