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m.moreno-brush@tu-braunschweig.de
ORCID: 0000-0003-3604-5852
2026 Postdoctoral researcher, Dept. Waste and Resource Management, TU Braunschweig
2023 Independent Environmental Consultant, UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
2022 Senior Analyst & Researcher, Center for Scientific Innovation in the Amazon (CINCIA), Peru.
2021 Independent Environmental Consultant, UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
2021-2022 Project Coordinator / Principal Investigator, University. of Engineering and Technology (UTEC), Peru.
2020 Postdoctoral researcher, University. of Engineering and Technology (UTEC), Peru.
2018 Doctoral degree in Environmental Geochemistry, University of Freiburg/ TU Braunschweig.
2011 Licentiate in Chemistry (major: Chemical Ecology), Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), Peru.
2007 Bachelor in Chemistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), Peru.
Peer reviewed journals
Moreno-Brush, M., McLagan, D.S., Biester, H. (2020) Fate of mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining in tropical rivers: Hydrological and biogeochemical controls. A critical review. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 1-39. LINK
Moreno-Brush, M., Portillo, A., Brändel, S., Tschapka, M., Storch, I., Biester, H. (2018) Mercury concentrations in bats (Chiroptera) from a gold mining area in the Peruvian Amazon. Ecotoxicology, 27, 45-54. LINK
Moreno-Brush, M., Rydberg, J., Gamboa N., Storch I., Biester H. (2016) Is mercury from small-scale gold mining prevalent in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon? Environmental Pollution, 218, 150-159. LINK
Guidelines and technical reports
Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury (2025). Mercury monitoring in and around artisanal and small-scale gold mining sites – A Technical Background Document. Scientific and Technical Series, Vol. 4. Geneva: Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, 86 pp. LINK
Timana Mendoza, C., Araújo-Flores, J., Peralta-Argomeda, J., Pillaca, M., Vega, C., Santa-María, M. C., Venail, P., Fernández, L. E., & Moreno Brush, M. (2023). Rapid biological inventory in aquatic communities shows environmental deterioration due to alluvial gold mining in the Madre de Dios River (Peru). River Mining project (PEER 8-235). LINK
Paiva López, K., Rau, P., Horna, D., Langendoen, E., & Moreno Brush, M. (2023). Increased deforestation in the Madre de Dios river basin, Peruvian Amazon, would increase surface runoff and sediment concentration. River Mining project (PEER 8-235). LINK
García Veramatus, M. P., Vega, C., Fernández, L. E., Araújo-Flores, J., & Moreno Brush, M. (2023). Mercury in fish and the ecotoxicological risk for fish and piscivorous birds of Madre de Dios, Peruvian Amazon. River Mining project (PEER 8-235). LINK
Estrada Terrel, Y., Portocarrero Trigoso, E. C., García Veramatus, M. P., Timana Mendoza, C., Quintana Cobo, I., Pillaca Ortiz, J. M., Castro, J., Quispe Flores, E.L, Fernández, L.E., & Moreno Brush, M. (2023). Influence of alluvial gold mining on the fluvial geodynamics of the Madre de Dios River, Peruvian Amazon, in the period 1984-2020. River Mining project (PEER 8-235). LINK
Estrada Terrel, Y., Guerrero, L., Sisniegas, P., Valdivia, G., Vega, C., Fernández, L. E., & Moreno Brush, M. (2023). Distribution and transport of mercury in the Madre de Dios river basin, Peruvian Amazon: influence of sediments and hydrodynamics. River Mining project (PEER 8-235). LINK
Callan, N., De la Cruz, A. Guerrero, L., Santillan, B., Langendoen, E., & Moreno Brush, M. (2023). Bedform dynamics in the mining-impacted Madre de Dios river, Peruvian Amazon. River Mining project (PEER 8-235). LINK
Society for Tropical Ecology ( "Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie" before)
www.soctropecol.eu
Asociación científica peruana Sinapsis
www.sinapsis-peru.org
Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
www.owsd.net