Jonas Schartner is working since 2017 at the at the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) in the department for Plant Protection Products (PPP). Since 2021 he is leading the subgroup for the environment managing fungicides and insecticides in the PPP authorisation.
After studying Chemistry and Biology at the Ruhr-University Bochum he went in 2011 to the Pennsylvania State University USA for his Master thesis in Plant Biochemistry. In 2015 he received his PhD in Biophysics at the Ruhr-University Bochum.