Professors
Research topics
- Fate of heavy metals in sediments, wetlands and intertidal river banks
- Removal of trace elements from wastewater and groundwater
- Fate of technology-critical elements in the environment
- Physicochemical fate of metallic nanoparticles released into surface waters
- Changes of trace element speciation in the human gastrointestinal tract
- Environmental pollution by industrial activities and mining: monitoring, prevention and cleanup
- Use of metallic nanoparticles as catalysers in water and soil remediation (nanotechnology)
- Recycling/recovery of technology-critical elements from waste and wastewater
- Analysis and fate of trace elements and their speciation in food/feed, humans/animals and the environment
- Revalorization of waste products and residues in soils
- Testing and development of (micronutrient-enriched) soil fertilizers, feed and food supplements
- Biofortification – use of micronutrient-enriched crops to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies in humans and animals
- Fate of arsenic, selenium, mercury and metallic nanoparticles in food and the environment: role of trace element speciation