Erika Martinez Ruiz

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Erika Martinez Ruiz

2022

Dr. Erika Martínez Ruiz comes from Mexico City, where she studied chemical-biological sciences at the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN). In her PhD Thesis at the TU Berlin, she researched the cyanotoxin transformation by manganese-oxidizing bacteria and is now continuing her academic career at the IGB Leibniz , where she studies the impact of chemical pollution on the interaction of aquatic organisms, specifically chytrid parasites and their cyanobacterial host. Erika has won several prestigious grants and awards and is also an experienced Soapbox Science participant. Twitter @Eri_Bemr https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/profile/erika-martinez-ruiz