Engineering biochemical processes for water treatment is my main research interest. I investigate interactions between organisms and pollutants and develop advanced biotechnologies to combat environmental pollution.
My current research focusses on:
Advanced water treatment technologies for removal of micropollutants.
Effect-directed bioanalytical technologies to bridge the gap between biological and chemical water quality assessment.
Oil spill biodegradation in Arctic marine environments (seawater, sea ice, sediment) by means of both laboratory and field experiments (focus on Greenland).
Areas of expertise
Analytical organic chemistry - screening - chemometrics I am expert in chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques. I developed LC-MS based chemometric techniques to screen and quantify micropollutants in water and advanced GC-MS-based oil-fingerprinting techniques to investigate oil degradation processes.
Environmental fate of organic pollutants I study the fate of pollutants including micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals and oil residues in drinking water, terrestrial aquatic environments, wastewater treatment and in marine environments
Environmental microbiology Using molecular biology techniques (high-throughput sequencing) and bioinformatics, I investigate microbial-oil interactions and oil bioremediation processes.
Multivariate statistics I apply and improve multivariate statistics for data mining and to reach a thorough understanding of complex processes
