Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sarah Pati

Assessing and managing anthropogenic contamination of natural resources and ecosystems represents a major challenge for a sustainable global development. To improve assessment of the environmental impact of anthropogenic compounds, Sarah Pati’s group investigates the occurrence and fate of organic contaminants in aquatic systems. Our research spans from comprehensive studies at the field scale to mechanistic investigations at the molecular scale and includes both emerging and legacy contaminants as well as their transformation products. A particular focus lies on elucidating reaction mechanisms of photochemical and enzymatic transformation processes with a combination of high-resolution mass spectrometry and compound-specific stable isotope analysis.

Sarah has joined EDGE in 2024, after appointments as research associate with a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellowship at the University of Basel (2019-2023) and as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota (2016-2019). Sarah has received a PhD in environmental chemistry from ETH Zurich and Eawag in 2015.