About Us

The Division of Environmental Geosciences investigates key processes controlling the natural environment and anthropogenic impacts. Researchers at EDGE combine field observations with experimental work, linking molecular-scale mechanisms at environmental interfaces with complex large-scale environmental processes using quantitative modelling. At EDGE, we accept the challenges posed by the release of known and emerging pollutants and recognise the need to understand their impacts on soils, ground and surface waters, using process-based and mechanistic research.

 News

10.02.2025
 

Thilo Hofmann (with appearances of Göksu Celik, Martin Stockhausen and Valerie Wilkeit) was interviewed on the environmental dangers of Diclofenac for...

10.02.2025
 

On 05.02.2025 Thilo Hofmann was featured in an episode of the WDR podcast "Zeitzeichen" on John Dunlop, the inventor of the tire, and how the tire...

24.01.2025
 

Concerns about pollutants in the environment are increasing, with substances such as plastic additives drawing particular concern due to their...

24.01.2025
 

Congratulations Anya Sherman, who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Environmental Fate Processes and Human Exposure to Rubber-Derivev...

20.01.2025
 

Elena Tiis joined EDGE as a PhD candidate in January 2025. In the frame of the Cluster of Excellence “Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health” and with the...

16.01.2025
 

Naresh Kumar, current senior research fellow and former postdoctoral researcher of EDGE, has been awarded the prestigious James J. Morgan Early Career...

 EDGE Lecture Series

30.01.2025
 

Martin Elsner

TU Munich

Melchior Neumayr Saal (2A502), UZA II

23.01.2025
 

Jörg Feldmann

TU Vienna

Melchior Neumayr Saal (2A502), UZA II

09.01.2025
 

Peter Ertl

TU Vienna

Melchior Neumayr Saal (2A502), UZA II

 Publications

Obanya, H. E., Khan, F. R., Carrasco-Navarro, V., Rødland, E. S., Walker-Franklin, I., Thomas, J., Cooper, A., Molden, N., Amaeze, N. H., Patil, R. S., Kukkola, A., Michie, L., Green-Ojo, B., Rauert, C., Couceiro, F., Hutchison, G. R., Tang, J., Ugor, J., Lee, S., ... Ford, A. T. (2024). Priorities to inform research on tire particles and their chemical leachates: A collective perspective. Environmental Research, 263, Article 120222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.120222