Cassie Rauert

Dr. Cassie Rauert is a Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), part of the University of Queensland under the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences.

• PhD in Environmental Chemistry, University of Birmingham (2014)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship at Environment and Climate Change Canada
• Former role in Canada's Oil Sands Monitoring Program

Her research focuses on human exposure to micro/nanoplastics and tyre road wear particles, with a particular interest in novel biomonitoring methods using silicone wristbands and medical waste. She develops analytical techniques like pyrolysis-GC-MS for plastic quantification in biological and environmental samples.

Recent publications highlight her work on:

• 2025: Interlaboratory comparisons for microplastic detection
• 2025: Microplastics in garden compost
• 2025: Food/beverage microplastic quantification challenges
• 2024: Tyre particle toxicity and atmospheric plastic degradation
• 2023: Global POPs monitoring frameworks

Dr. Rauert actively supervises students in projects related to plastic pollution, chemical exposome, and environmental risk assessment. She contributes to lab design protocols for plastic-minimized environments and non-target screening methodologies.