dr. G (Gabriel) Sigmund

dr. G (Gabriel) Sigmund

Universitair docent
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Gabriel Sigmund is an Assistant Professor in the micropollutant Group at ETE. Gabriel´s research aims to better understand and predict contaminant sorption and mobility in engineered- (e.g. sorbent filled reactors), as well as natural environments (e.g. soil passage), and to use those insights to improve risk assessment for organic compounds as well as the environmental footprint and performance of water treatment technologies. His work often involves carbonaceous materials and related nature based sorbents. Ongoing research focuses on (i) biochar and wood-based activated carbon for sustainable contaminant removal from water and in the soil passage, (ii) mobility of ionic and ionizable organic contaminants, which is critical for assessing the emerging contaminant class of persistent mobile and toxic (PMT) substances, (iii) the science-policy interface on chemical pollution, and (iv) post fire effects on contaminant dynamics.

Roles in scientific societies

Head of expert committee on persistent, mobile, and toxic (PMT) organic contaminants in the German Water Chemistry Society

Board member in the International Panel on Chemical Pollution (www.ipcp.ch)

Steering Committee Member SETAC Interest Group " Persistence Science’

 

CV

  • since March 2023 Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Research (NL)
  • 2020-2023 Junior Research Group Leader at University of Vienna (AT), Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science
  • 2019 Guest Scientist at Nankai University (CN), College of Environmental Science and Engineering
  • 2019 PostDoc at Agroscope (CH), Environmental Analytics
  • 2018 PostDoc at Technical University of Munich (DE), Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry
  • 2017 PhD in Environmental Science at the University of Vienna (AT), Department of Environmental Geosciences
  • 2013 MSc in ecotoxicology at University of Applied Science -Technikum Wien (AT)

 

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