Researcher biography
Dr Katja Shimko has a background in Forensic Science (MRes) as well as environmental and analytical chemistry (PhD). She works as a Senior Scientist at Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions, providing chemist instrument support for analysis of oligonucleotides.
In collaboration with Sport Integrity Australia, Katja’s PhD project at QAEHS focused on assessing the suitability of performance and image enhancing drugs, as potential biomarkers for their use, in wastewater. During her time as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Katja continued the analysis of wastewater for performance enhancing drugs across Australia and the US. In addition, she also worked with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission on the creation of liquid chromatography and gas chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry libraries for by-products and contaminants of chemical manufacture.
Katja’s areas of interest and expertise include understanding and improving public health through wastewater-based epidemiology and analytical method development and validation for small molecules.
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Wastewater Analysis for the Detection of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited Substances QAEHS HDR Student Project |
2019–2022 |