Dr Hartl is an Associate Professor of Marine Biology, specializing in Marine Ecotoxicology in the Centre for Marine Biodiversity & Biotechnology (CMBB), Institute of Life and Earth Sciences, at Heriot-Watt University. He is also Director of the CMBB and Director of Studies for the MSc cluster in Marine, Environment and Climate Change (shttp://www.hw.ac.uk/marinemsc). Dr Hartl represents the Marine Alliance for Science & technology, Scotland (MASTS) on the Scottish Government’s Marine Litter Advisory Group Steering Committee and leads the MASTS Stressors Forum (http://www.masts.ac.uk/research/research-forums/marine-stressors-forum/). He received an MSc from the University of Vienna (1996) in Biology (Zoology/Marine Ecology) and a PhD from the University of Southampton (2000). Following a Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College Cork (2001-2006), he took up a position as Lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He was president of the Physiology Section of the American Fisheries Society (2010-2012) and served on the Environmental Pollution Review Panel for FORMAS (2011-2014).

Latest Papers:

Jones KL, Hartl MGJ, Bell MC, Capper A. in press. Microplastic accumulation in a Zostera marina L. bed at Deerness Sound, Orkney: a small-scale study. Mar Pollut Bull.

Gajda-Meissner Z, Matyja K, Brown D, Hartl MGJ, Fernades TF. in press. Importance of surface coating on accumulation dynamics and acute toxicity of copper nanomaterials and dissolved copper to Daphnia magna.Environ Toxicol Chem 39:287-299 .

Wale M, Briers RA, Hartl MGJ, Bryson D, Diele K. in press. From DNA to Ecological Performance: Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on a Reef-Building Mussel. Sci Total Environ 689:126-132

 Latest Citations: h-index (Google Scholar): 17

20 October 2020

Scott-Fordsmand, J. J., S. Pozzi-Mucelli, L. Tran, K. Aschberger, S. Sabella, U. B. Vogel, C. Poland, D. Balharry, T. Fernandes, S. Gottardo, S. Hankin, M. G. J. Hartl, N. Hartmann, D. Hristozov, K. Hund-Rinke, H. Johnston, A. Marcomini, O. Panzer, D. Roncato, A. T. Saber, H. Wallin, and V. Stone. 2014. 'A unified framework for nanosafety is needed.', NanoToday, 9: 546—49.

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Grillo, Renato, Leonardo F. Fraceto, Mónica J. B. Amorim, Janeck James Scott-Fordsmand, Reinhilde Schoonjans, and Qasim Chaudhry. 2021. 'Ecotoxicological and regulatory aspects of environmental sustainability of nanopesticides', Journal of Hazardous Materials, 404: 124148.

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19 October 2020

Hartl, M. G. J., M. Kilemade, D. Sheehan, J. O'Halloran, N. M. O'Brien, and F. N. A. M. van Pelt. 2007. 'Hepatic biomarkers of sediment-associated pollution in juvenile turbot, Scophthalmus maximus L.', Marine Environmental Research, 64: 191-208

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Petrea, Ș.-M., M.Cristea Costache, D., Ș.-A. Strungaru, I.-A. Simionov, A. Mogodan, L. Oprica, and V. A. Cristea. 2020. ' Machine Learning Approach in Analyzing Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals in Turbot Tissues', Molecules, 25: 4696.

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