Dr. Thorsten Hüffer

 

 

 

 

 

Research Faculty

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thorsten.hueffer@univie.ac.at

⚲ Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II), Room 2C409, 1090 Vienna

Globally, chemical pollution is irreversibly affecting ecosystems. The fate of these chemicals in the environment is largely governed by phase transfer processes. Since his PhD at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), Thorsten has investigated how biotic and abiotic processes change plastic-xenobiotic interactions in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Recently, he has been exploring how environmental factors impact the release of additives from plastics, like phthalates, causing them to become long-lived sources of pollution in environmental systems. Similarly, he investigates the factors that shape the continuous leaching of xenobiotics from tire materials and their products, which can be take up by agricultural plants, thereby entering the human food web.

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Teaching

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Activities

  • Member of expert committee „Polymers in the aquatic environment“ within the Waterchemistry Society
  • Member of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
  • Member of the German Waterchemical Society
  • Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
  • Member of the Center for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU)

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 Publications

Kolar, E., Micic Batka, V., Hüffer, T., & Hofmann, T. (2017). Leaching of additives from PVC microplastic particles to aquatic systems upon weathering. In Wasser 2017 Jahrestagung der Wasserchemischen Gesellschaft (pp. 422-425)

Hüffer, T., Praetorius, A., Stephan, W., von der Kammer, F., & Hofmann, T. (2017). Lessons from a decade of engineered nanoparticle fate and exposure assessment for microplastics in aquatic environments. In Wasser 2017 Jahrestagung der Wasserchemischen Gesellschaft - 22.-24.Mai 2017 Donaueschingen (pp. 414-416)

Castan, S., Sigmund, G., Hüffer, T., Kah, M., & Hofmann, T. (2017). Sorption of pyrene to carbonaceous materials - influence of humic substances and ionic stregth. In Wasser 2017 Jahrestagung der Wasserchemischen Gesellschaft - 22.-24. Mai 2017 Donaueschingen (pp. 336-339)