Dr. Steffi Formann

Team Leader


Phytomining & Bioextraktion

Portrait Dr. Jan Winkler, Forschungsgruppenleiter Team A1

CV

2025- now

Team Leader at JTC, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

2024 -now

Postdoc, Biochemical Conversion, IBKE Weimar, Germany

2019–2023

Postdoc, Biomass Research, DBFZ Leipzig, Germany (Prof. Dr. Ingo Hartmann)

2017–2019

Research Associate, SFZ Jena, Germany

2013–2016

Doctorate, Microbiology, FSU Jena, Germany (Prof. Dr. Erika Kothe)

2008–2012

Research Associate, Microbial Communication, Institute of Microbiology, FSU Jena, Germany

2008

M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Natural Sciences (Focus on Biology, Geosciences and
Bio-Geo-Interactions), FSU Jena, Germany

Further informations

Research focus

Environmental Anthropology

Extraction of valuable, raw and natural materials and substances from biomass and biomass interactions

Function and application of trace element-accumulating fungi, lichens, mosses, bacteria, algae and vascular plants

Soil rhizosphere as a habitat, source of natural substances and pollutant filter

Environmental-chemical and process-orientated dynamics of soil-organism-water contamination

Bio- and geochemical cycles of organic and inorganic pollutants and toxins

Bio-geo-interactions of organism communities of contaminated areas

Projects

JTC-EU-Networking Conference

Find impulses, collaborations, and concrete common paths to a Just Transformation

Publikationen

Find here a list of Steffi Formann’s publications for the Just Transition Center.

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Formann, Steffi, Lutz Koch, and Andreas Kamradt. 2026. Grüne Bioökonomie: Biologische Rohstoffrückgewinnung Und Pflanzenbasierte Technologien Für Einen Zukunftsfähigen Strukturwandel: Biologische Bergbau- Und Sanierungstechnologien Als Impulsgeber Regionaler Wertschöpfung Und Wirtschaftlicher Transformation. With Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt and Martin-Luther Universität. Just Transition Center. https://doi.org/10.25673/123388.
Formann, Steffi, Lutz Koch, and Andreas Kamradt. 2026. Green Bioeconomy: Biological Raw Material Recovery and Plant- Based Technologies for Sustainable Structural Change: Biological Mining and Remediation Technologies as Drivers of Regional Value Creation and Economic Transformation. With Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt and Martin-Luther Universität. Just Transition Center. https://doi.org/10.25673/123389.