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Freshwater ecologist Sonja C. Jähnig returns to University of Duisburg-Essen as professor
Sonja C. Jähnig, who studies how damaged rivers and lakes recover, is a newly appointed professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where she also studied and earned her doctorate.
Why it matters: The University of Duisburg-Essen has a newly appointed professor whose research at the Research Center One Health Ruhr covers freshwater ecosystem recovery.
Sonja C. Jähnig is a newly appointed professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), according to a release on the idw science news wire.
At the Research Center One Health Ruhr, she investigates how damaged freshwater ecosystems recover and regain their biodiversity, and how healthy waters matter for human well-being.
Jähnig completed both her studies and her doctorate at UDE.
Editor’s view
Sarah Williamson, Teaching, Digital and AI Editor
Jähnig, a UDE alumna, is newly appointed at the university, and her research at the Research Center One Health Ruhr asks whether species that disappear from rivers and lakes can one day return.
