Ronja Merschmann

„If you're not curious, you'll never learn anything.“ - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Current position

PhD student/ research assistant

Career

• Since Jan. 2026: Doktorandin/ wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Georg-August-University Göttingen in the project Kefir
  
• 2022-2025: M. Sc. Nutrition Science at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
  
• 2019-2022: B. Ed. Nutrition and German for Secondary School Teachers at the University of Paderborn
  

Publications

• Merschmann, R., Burgmer, C., Eckert, G. P., & Wagner, A. E. (2025). Bioavailability of Magnesium and Potassium Salts Used as Potential Substitutes for Sodium Chloride in Human Nutrition - A Review. Molecular nutrition & food research, 69(22), e70227. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mnfr.70227.
  
  
• Dähn, S., Zimmermann, C., Merschmann, R., Schmutzler, P. & Wagner, A. E. (2026). Impact of allyl-isothiocyanate and high sucrose diet on antimicrobial peptide expression and survival in Drosophila melanogaster. Front. Immunol. 17,1804605. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1804605.