Dr. Oxana Kotina

• Conducting HPLC analyses of insecticides and proteins in biological samples • Investigating toxic effects of avermectins in aquatic invertebrates (locusts, mosquitoes, etc.) • Preparing research articles in English for publication in peer-reviewed journals

Quality control of cytostatics (raw materials and drug products), stability studies, validation of cleaning, method transfer Implementation of GMP in the new analytical laboratory Preparation of GMP documents (APs, CoA, specifications, SOPs) in collaboration with the QA and Production departments Collaboration with international and national partners Communication with the contractor’s Senior QA Lead for day to day quality issues Ordering reference standards (USP), reagents, and laboratory consumables

• Consulting of clients for overseas programs of learning foreign languages and advanced training • Organization of an advanced training program for a Russian bank management team in Singapore • Finding new partners (New Zealand school, agency in Italy) • Collaboration and correspondence with international educational agencies • Organization of international partner presentations (B.H. M.S., Switzerland) at educational institutions • Finding new customers and maintaining the existing client base

• Successful planning and execution of a complex PhD project on identification and characterization of industrial markers resulted in new substance discovery • Cooperation with environmental protection agencies, providing them with the results of assessment of quality and ecotoxicity of industrial effluents • Training and supervising BSc students • Presentations at international conferences, publications in peer-reveiwed journals • Supervision of graduate (BSc) students and trainees

• Working out and preparing lectures for a Master course in Water Science, tutorial teaching and examinations • Participation in organization and equipping a newly established analytical laboratory • Investigation of the suitability of laboratory glassware for its use for the experiments with volatile compounds and evaluation of their potential sorption to PTFE-lined caps

• HPLC sorption experiments • UV-VIS spectrophotometric measurements

• Numerical modelling atmospheric aerosol pollutant spreading • Participation in investigation of biological safety issues • Participating in an ISTC project • Presentations at conferences, writing scientific articles

• Epidemiological investigation on the identification of the places with the groups at higher risk for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases • Project “PLACE” methodology (the University of North Carolina, USA)

Thisis title: Characterization of organic contaminants in industrial waste waters from direct discharges and their behavior in fluvial systems of North Rhine-Westphalia

Thisis title: Sorption-related isotope fractionation

Influence of Soil Salinity of Different Quality on the Morpho-Anatomical Structure of a Wheat Root