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.
Curriculum vitae
since 2018: Research Faculty at the Department for Environmental Geosciences
2022: Habilitation in Environmental Chemistry at University of Vienna
2019-2022: Vice Head of the Department
2013-2018: Assistant at the Department for Environmental Geosciences
2014: Doctorate degree in natural science (Dr. rer. nat.) Thesis title: “Sorption of non-ionic organic compounds by carbon-based nanomaterials – Systematic characterization, modeling, and application”.
2010-2013: PhD student / research assistant, Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
2008-2010: M.Sc. in Environmental Management, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
2005-2008: B.Sc. in Water Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
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)