• Theories and methods of landscape and environmental planning
• Integrating novel concepts such as ecosystem services, green infrastructure and nature-based solutions
• Innovative methods in planning, including remote sensing, citizen science, and geodesign

• Characterization of eukaryotic symbionts in freshwater habitats
• Molecular and ultrastructural analyses)
• Experimental studies on host-symbiont interactions through factorial infection trials

• Correlative microscopy
• Environmental microbiology
• Raman spectroscopy

• Sources, mobilization, environmental behaviour and risk assessment of water contaminants, esp. geogenic inorganic trace elements
• Hydrogeochemistry and environmental mineralogy: water-rock interaction
• Impact of mining, agriculture, energy generation and contaminated sites on water quality
• Hydrogeochemical modelling
• Interdisciplinary projects, e.g. socio-ecological research

• Bioactive nanocomposites and bioconjugation of gold nanoparticles
• Nanoparticle polymer composites
• Dispersion and fragmentation of aggregates
• Synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts – supported particles

• water and mine water treatment technologies
• innovation research in water and environmental technology
• sustainable energy generation from mine water

• Aquatic Biodiversity
• Multiple Stressors
• DNA-based identification methods (DNA barcoding, DNA metabarcoding)
• Stream ecology

• metatranscriptome and metagenome analysis
• comparative genomics
• differential gene expression analysis
• bioinformatics tool and pipeline development
• protist diversity

• Wastewater and process water treatment
• Wastewater treatment plants
• Industrial water production
• Plastics in the environment/microplastics

• microalgae, diatoms
• evolutionary genomics
• transcriptomics
• high throughput microscopy
• microscopic image analysis
• morphometrics

• Aquatic bioassessment and biodiversity
• Ecosystem services
• Restoration ecology
• River basin management

• energy and material coupling of processes for water treatment
• methods for membrane and fouling characterization
• application of thermal and mechanical desalination processes
• elimination of micropollutants

• Effect-related analytics
• Viruses

• Molecular labwork
• MinION sequencing
• Protistan diversity

• molecular phylogeny
• microscopy,
• biodiversity analysis
• molecular labwork

• Co2-saturated, deep subsurface ecosystems
• Interactions between microbes and genomic fluidity/adaptation
• OMIC's technologies (Proteomics/Metagenomics/Lipidomics) and biostatistics

• Microbial diversity and community assembly
• Resource competition theory
• Biodegradation rates of oil and other substances in the environment

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• Water treatment and advanced waste water treatment
• Water reuse
• Water Safety Plan / risk management

• Ecology of benthic freshwater diatoms
• microalgae
• biomonitoring
• morphometry

Abteilung Fluss und Landschaft

• Pollutants in the Environment
• Sampling
• Water Quality and Wastewater Treatment
• Climate Change Adaptation

• Oxidative processes in wastewater treatment (municipal and industrial)
• Evaluation of novel wastewater treatment technologies
• Biological post-treatment processes
• Water Reuse
• Analysis and evaluation of trace substances

• Planning, manufacturing and operation of environmental plants, esp. process engineering plants for the purification of contaminated waters, soils, residues/wastes and gases

• plant safety, esp. on the basis of the European Machinery Directive

• Development and evaluation of wastewater treatment processes
• Application of Non-target screening (NTS) in environmental analysis
• Software development for NTS application
• Development of analytical methods
• Project management

• wastewater
• water
• energy
• infrastructure

• Research coordinator
• Aquatic parasitology/ Environmental parasitology
• Biodiversity of aquatic organisms
• Ecology of River Systems
• Urban ecology and urban neighbourhood development

• Building Information Modeling (BIM)
• Facility Information Management (FIM)
• Planning and development of "digital twins"
• Project Management
• Planning and Execution of national and international infrastructure projects

• Environmemtal problems of cigarette butt
• Microplastics and micropollutants
• Fluoride
• Environmental epidemiology & medicine
• Environment pollution monitoring (including water, sea, air and soil)
• Survey on aquatic organisms (monitoring contamination, bioindicator
• Water and wastewater treatment (bio and chemical processes)

• Administrative science
• Impact assessment
• Governmental steering
• Governance
• Policy analysis
• Environmental policy
• Political system of the Federal Republic of Germany, especially parties and federalism

• Non-Target Screening
• Chemometrics
• Organic Pollutants in the aquatic Environment
• Oxidative Processes in Water Treatment
• HPLC / High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

• Handling and utilisation of mine water
• Effects of an increase in mine water on the hydrogeology of the overburden
• Monitoring the increase in mine water
• Impact of mine water discharge into receiving waters

• ozonation
• matrix effects
• trace substances

• environmental toxicology
• aquatic parasitology
• eDNA tools to monitor parasite biodiversity in aquatic systems

• analysis and modeling of water resources across spatial and temporal scales from local to regional and global, under multiple human influences
• water quality and nutrient transport
• transport of material such as nutrients and sediment from source areas to the coast and their dynamics at intersections of ecosystems
• land-ocean connection of rivers
• biogeochemical modeling of water systems under human influence
• interactions of ground- and surface water
• substance behaviour at intersections of hydrosystems (rivers - lakes, reservoirs, coastal areas)
• typologies and models of global river systems, global distribution of hydrological filter systems (reservoirs, coastal filter, regional sea basins)
• mathematical modeling, data collection and analysis using geographic information systems (GIS)
• water-related ecosystem services

• Membrane Technology
• Material Science
• Surface chemistry and adsorption

• Interface for universities and schools
• Fuel cells
• Water and algae technology
• ESD (Education for Sustainable Development

• Aquatic Ecology
• Entomology
• Biodiversity

• Analysis of organic substances
• Water analysis and environmental analysis
• Non-Target Analytics

• Aquatic ecology & human-ecosystem interactions
• GIS, environmental data analysis & multivariate statistics
• Genomics, isotope analysis & transcriptomics
• Field ecology of tropical fishes & fish migration
• Integrating omics tools to understand adaptation to stressors for conservation & environmental policy

• electrocatalytic processes (oxygen evoution, hydrogen evolution, and chlorine evolution reaction)
• gold nanoparticles for the protein or drug research

• Catalytic and porous polymer composites for the degradation of pollutants
• Fabrication of tailored materials
• Degradation of pollutants in continious flow
• Reduction, oxidation and photocatalytic processes
• Electrocatalytic processes

• water resources modelling across scales
• integrated large-scale/global-scale modelling of water resources quantity and quality
• development and application of systemic approaches for the analysis of driver-pressure-impact chains between pollution, resulting water quantity and quality
• quantification and assessment of consequences of global change for the environment, economy and for societies, in particular related to freshwater quantity and quality
• analysis and evaluation of impacts by applying qualitative scenario development methodologies and quantitatively by modelling and indicator development
• analysis of interlinkages between UN Sustainable Development Goals and the assessment of synergies and trade-offs for their achievment
• model development
• co-design processes with stakeholders

• management of water resources facilities
• operation of water management systems
• energy
• wastewater treatment plants

• Applied Microeconomics
• Water Economics
• Standardisation

• Wastewater treatment
• Wastewater ponds
• Plant operation
• Microplastics in wastewater
• Water reuse
• Phosphorus recovery
• Coordination of research projects

• synthesis of triplet photosensitizers with high efficiency in photoinduced generation of reactive oxygen species
• multifunctional photoactive nanocarriers for imaging and therapy
• photofunctional electrospun nanofiber membranes
• photophysics and photobiology
• studies on advanced oxidation processes on chemical and biological targets

• Effect-related analytics
• Instrumental analytics (chromatography & mass spectrometry)
• Toxicology
• Analytical method development and optimization

• Stream ecology
• Stream restoration
• Identification and sampling of benthic invertebrates

• ecology of parasites in aquatic invertebrates and fish
• microscopic and molecular detection of parasite stages
• parasitological laboratory experiments

• investigation of molecular biomarker on protein and RNA-level

• Legionella
• hygienically relevant bacteria
• Antibiotic-resistant bacteria
• Antibiotic resistance genes

• genotoxic/mutagenic effects
• oestrogenic effects

• Degradation of phosphonates using persulfate, ozone, and percarbonate
• Coupling of LC-IRMS and LC-HRMS
• Identification of transformation products with LC-Orbitrap-MS
• Characterization of degradation processes by isotopic fractionation of carbon (LC-IRMS)

• Oxidation processes and their applications in water treatment
• Correlation analysis to identify relationships within complex wastewater treatment data

Universitäts-Professor der Universität Duisburg-Essen

• River and floodplain ecology
• Biodiversity and Ecology of European freshwater invertebrates
• River restoration and assessment in the light of the EU-Water Framework Directive
• Long term ecological monitoring and conservation research

• Advanced wastewater treatment
• Membrane processes in water and wastewater treatment
• Treatment of sludge liquor deriving from sewage sludge dewatering
• Reuse of municipal wastewater

• Microbial & aquatic ecology
• Microbiology
• Microbial self-recycling
• Bioremediation
• Freshwater systems & nature protection

• Natural climate protection
• Nature-based solutions

• PFAS analysis
• Instrumental analytical chemistry
• Water and environmental analysis
• Spectroscopy/Spectrometry

• Data Sciences, groundwater quality
• Monitoring of water quality and impact of coal mining
• Contamination of surface water bodies in NRW with Escherichia coli bacteria
• Legionella

• Fate and transport of chemicals and pollutants (e.g. Microplastics,..) in water bodies, chemical processes at the Sediment-Water Interface
• Water and wastewater treatment, Iron nanoparticles for water remediation, water analysis, online spectroscopic techniques / multivariate analysis, Geochemical modeling

• Mathematical and numerical modeling of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in rock and soil
• Heat transfer in porous and fractured media as well as at multiphase conditions
• Temperature as natural tracer in groundwater, springs and minning
• Mechanical failure (such as earthquakes and landslides) due to increased pore pressure

• Assessment of rivers based on aquatic organism groups (mainly benthic invertebrates)
• effects of river restoration on hydromorphology and organism groups of river and floodplain
• dispersal and recolonization of aquatic organisms
• climate change effects on river ecosystems

• Micropollutant removal
• Oxidation processes (ozonation, photocatalysis)
• Electrochemical oxidation/reduction
• Byproduct and bromate formation
• Reactor design and simulation
• Membrane processes and development

• dynamics of genetic diversity and evolution (adaptive immunity, viruses, microbial communities)
• statistical analysis and modeling
• biomolecular modeling and simulation
• statistical analysis of high throughput sequencing data
• computational virology
• evolutionary optimization

• Micropollutants and related transformation products in the environment
• Nontarget Analytik
• HPLC/ (high resolution) mass spectrometry
• Advanced oxidation processes

• answering freshwater biodiversity using DNA-based methods
• answering ecological questions using experimental approach
• using freshwater amphipods as model organisms
• studying species coexistence in a Mediterranean stream with molecular methods

• drinking water microbiology
• hygienic relevant and pathogenic microorganisms
• microbial ecology

• Advanced oxidative processes for wastewater treatment (AOPs) 4th purification stage (ozone)
• 5th purification stage after ozone (biological after-treatment)
• organic trace compounds (hormones & hormonal active compounds)
• Gas chromatography
• Liquid chromatography
• Working under S1 & S2 conditions
• Effect-based test methods
• Microbiology
• Sewage treatment plants & groundwater monitoring & surface water monitoring according to WFD
• Drinking water analysis according to drinking water ordinance
• Sampling (waste water, surface water, drinking water)

• Interactions and transport of or organic pollutants in water cycle
• Non-standard GC/MS water analysis
• Drinking and wastewater treatment (adsorption, membrane filtration, innovative hybrid processes)

• river and floodplain ecology
• control of biological success and assessment of river and floodplain restoration measures
• expertise for ground beetles and birds

• Time Series Analysis
• Mathematical Optimization
• Reservoir Operation
• Hydrological Modelling
• Machine Learning
• Hydraulic Modelling (2D / 3D)
• Forecasting

Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB), Abteilung für Ökosystemforschung, AG Aquatische Ökogeographie

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut

• methods: hydrology, community ecology, conservation biology, ecological & habitat modelling, and biogeography approaches
• benthic macro-invertebrates & 30kg+ freshwater megafauna
• river reaches, catchments, to continental networks, to global scale impacts

• Oxidative (waste)water treatment (ozone, chlorine dioxide, chlorine)
• Micropollutants in aquatic environments
• Cytostatic drugs in oncological industries

• Deep Biosphere
• Direct measurements of microbial turnover via radiotracer incubations
• Pore water geochemistry
• Biogeochemistry of lacustrine systems
• High pressure microbiology
• Extreme habitats, extremophily

• Environmental management consulting (wastewater management and domestic waste management)
• Energy management consulting for energy suppliers, grid operators and industry

• Strategic R&D and R&I
• Project management
• Technology scouting in the field of water

• Theoretical physics and chemistry
• Computational material science
• Surface science
• Water at interfaces
• Phorocatalytic Water splitting
• Density functional theory
• Ab initio thermodynamics
• Molecular dynamics simulations
• Excited states properties of matter

• 2D‐Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• Advanced Oxidation Processes

• HPLC-IRMS (Isotope ratio mass spectrometry)
• Elemental analyzer (EA)-IRMS
• HPLC-UV
• Ion chromatography

• Infrared Spectroscopy
• Electron impact-Mass Spectrometry
• 1H-Nuclear magnetic resonance Spectroscopy

• Solvent extraction
• Titration

• Instrumental Analytical Chemistry (Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry)
• Effect Directed Analysis
• Oxidative Processes for Water Treatment
• Trace Organic Compounds and Transformation Products in the Environment

• Halogenated flame retardants
• Mineral fibres
• Aquatic ecotoxicity
• Regulatory Chemistry

• Ecotoxicology: Sediment toxicity test
• Environmental analytics (Accumulation of pollutants in sediment and aquatic organisms)
• Vaibility assays for bacteria in water (V-qPCR und FCM)

• Mathematical modeling and simulation of wastewater treatment systems, liquid media circuits and and water chemical processes
• Development of models and model libraries
• Planning and development of "digital twins"
• Greenhouse gas emissions in wastewater treatment
• Development of research projects

• Transferring research into industrial applications to tackle water scarcity
• Water circularity & industrial problematic wastewater
• Lighthouse projects & Build-Own-Operate in sustainable wastewater treatment
• Integrated chemical processing

• environmental and human(patient)-associated microbiome
• bioinformatics
• wastewater based epidemiology (WBE)

• ozonation
• matrix effects
• trace substances

• Plant engineering
• Water analysis
• project management

• Chemical process engineering
• Circular economy of water
• Treatment of toxic industrial wastewater
• Engineering, construction and operation of environmental technology systems

• general laboratory management such as quality assurance, method development, occupational safety and procurement
• adsorptive water purification processes (e.g. physical-chemical characterization of activated carbons, optimization of treatment processes
• production and reactivation of activated carbons using our custom-made rotary kiln
• adsorption processes on the molecular level
• development of "tailored adsorbents"

• advanced wastewater treatment
• elimination of micropollutants
• membrane processes in wastewater treatment

• demand-oriented sewer cleaning
• formation of deposits in combined sewer systems
• Prevention of odour problems

• Ecotoxicological modelling
• Causal stressor-response chain

• Detection of enteric human pathogenic Viruses in the complex water matrices
• Determination of viral infectivity by molecular biological and cell culture methods
• Development and evaluation of novel approaches to determine viral infectivity in the aquatic environment

• Assessment of health care associated bacteria and protozoa in hospital water distribution systems in Sub-Sahara Africa

• Advancedd oxidation processes
• Photolysis / Photocatalysis
• Transformation prcesses of organic molecules
• Liquidchromatography
• High mesolution mass spectrometry

• Sources, mobilization, environmental behaviour and risk assessment of water contaminants, esp. geogenic inorganic trace elements
• Hydrogeochemistry and environmental mineralogy: water-rock interaction
• Impact of mining, agriculture, energy generation and contaminated sites on water quality
• Hydrogeochemical modelling
• Interdisciplinary projects, e.g. socio-ecological research

• Transformation processes in aquatic environments
• Fundamental process understanding in chemical water treatment
• Feasibility studies on water treatment (e.g., Pilot studies)

• water and wastewater treatment
• elimination of micropollutants
• water recovery
• water distribution
• air filtration
• air quality monitoring
• Filter testing

• Elimination of micropollutants
• Energetic optimization
• Aerobic granules

• Process optimization
• Microbial Fuel Cells
• Syntrophic acetate oxidation
• Analysis of microbial pathways through stable isotope analysis

• Simulation of wastewater treatment systems
• Model development
• Biogas systems
• Microbial pathways
• Deammonification

• Water treatment and advanced waste water treatment
• Adsorption technology
• Elimination of micro pollutants

• Aquatic microbiology
• Ecophysiology of microalgae
• Nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems

• phycology
• diatom research
• digital microscopy
• eDNA analysis
• biomonitoring
• morphometry
• aquatic ecology

• anaerobic degradation of polycyclical aromatic hydrocarbons (PAKs)
• Microbial ecology and factors that limit degradation processes in the environment
• development of environmental biotechnologies for degradation processes

• • water resources and water catchment
• networks
• analytics
• hygiene
• water economics and management

• Drinking water hygiene
• Legionella growth
• Microbiome in drinking water

• Computational Biology
• (Meta)Genomics
• Microbial Ecology
• Big data and cloud computing
• Metadata

• Cavitation
• Ship-River-Interaction
• Multiphase Flows
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Molecular Dynamics
• Experimental Fluid Dynamics (EFD)
• Fluid-Structure-Interaction
• Ship & Offshore Technology
• Floating Structures
• Dynamics of Floating Structures
• Ocean Waves - Offshore Structures – Interaction
• Sloshing

• Urban Health / Urban Epidemiology
• Development of indicator sets for small scale health reports, Association between environmental exposure (noise, urban green), built environment and health outcomes
• Prevention and Health Promotion

• Aquatic parasitology
• Pollutant accumulation in parasites

• Rolling-out scientific research results into industrial products and practice to face water scracity
• Support of young scientists and water enthusiasts with their hidden entrepreneurial talents
• Support of university spin-offs / start-ups
• Water Circularity, wastewater as Resource, industrial problematic wastewater
• Build-Own-Operate, Lighthouse Projects in sustainable wastewater treatment / circularity
• Integrated chemical processing

• Environmental toxicology
• Aquatic ecotoxicology
• Non- standardised ecotoxicological tests
• Standardised ecotoxicological tests
• Biomarker analyses

• heavy precipitation adaptation
• risk perception
• acceptance for multifunctional urban space usage

• Hydrology and water quality modeling
• Pollution of surface and groundwater in urban areas
• Biodiversity trends in freshwater ecosystems
• Biodiversity dynamics in response to climate change and land use
• Ecological services in freshwater ecosystems and floodplains

• Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management
• Sustainable urban water management
• Global water problems
• Hydromorphology and morphodynamics of rivers
• River rehabilitation
• Fish migration concepts
• Water quality modelling and management incl. mass flow balancing
• Sustainable Hydropower solutions

• Analytical Chemistry
• Environmental Science and Pollution
• Chromatography
• Mass Spectrometry
• Component-specific Isotope Analysis

• microbial ecology
• microbiological method development
• live-dead distinction (i.e. integrity-PCR)

• monitoring of water treatment efficacy
• determination of the biological stability of water
• determination of the efficacy of disinfectants

Membrane, adsorption and combined membrane processes

• oil bearing water resources
• eutrophic water resources

Process optimization and simulation WaSH im Gesundheitssektor

• re-use of hyper-saline waste water
• quaternary effluent treatment (micropollutant removal)

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• Cell culture
• Endocrinology, genotoxicity, cytotoxicity
• Mixture effects

• Performance evaluation of surface-structured membranes with feed spacer
• CaSO₄ scaling experiments
• Hydrodynamic analysis using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)

• parasite-host interactions
• trophic ecology
• invasive species
• behavioural ecology
• biodiversity

• Water and wastewater treatment
• Adsorption technology
• Porous materials
• Surface chemistry
• Homogenous and heterogenous precipitation
• Membrane scaling

• Decentralized wastewater treatment
• Risk assessment of domestic micropollutants
• Development of treatment concepts for the elimination of domestic micropollutants in decentralized wastewater treatment plants
• Development of methods / solutions that target to detect and reduce organic pollutants in domestic wastewater

• DNA based identification methods (DNA metabarcoding, DNA megabarcoding)
• population genetics (analyses of haplotypes, genotyping by sequencing methods)
• Multiple stressors
• Freshwater streams and biodiversity

• Impact of multiple stressors on macroinvertebrate communities
• New imaged-based and DNA-based assessment methods

• aquatic ecotoxicology
• endocrine disruptors
• Bioassays (Yeast Screen))
• anthropogenic micropollutants
• REACH & CLP

• laser-based synthesis von heterogenous catalysts
• laser-based writing of crystal defects into colloidal nanoparticles
• characterization of nanoparticles (size, surface, optical and catalytic properties)
• redox catalysis (electro-, thermal-, and photocatalysis)

• Instrumental Analytical Chemistry
• Chemometrics
• Spectroscopy/Spectrometry
• Infrared Spectroscopy
• Mass Spectrometry
• Applied Programming in Analytical Chemistry
• Microplastics Analysis

• Sustainable Pricing in the Water Sector
• Efficient Regulation in the national/international Water Sector
• Methods for Economic Valuation of Water Services (WTP Measurement)

• non-standardized ecotoxicological tests with macroinvertebrates

• Analysis of aquatic food-webs using stable isotope analysis
• Multihabitatsampling and -mapping, species identification of macroinvertebrates

• Planning and optimization of waste water treatment plants
• Advanced treatment of combined sewer overflows using retention soil filters
• Elimination of micropollutants
• Removal of pathogens from waste water

• protozoan parasites in aquatic/terrestrial invertebrates
• molecular phylogeny and evolution of gregarine apicomplexans

Wastewater and sludge treatment, e. g.

• Elimination of nutrients
• Microplastics in wastewater
• Biomasses management
• Co-digestion
• Optimization of plant operational
• International design approaches

Operation of wastewater management facilities

Economic efficiency of infrastructural measures

• Water and environmental chemistry
• Wastewater treatment and disposal
• Water protection
• Further education and training

• Human and ecotoxicology
• Drinking water and environmental pollution
• Effect-directed analysis (EDA)

• Organic trace material analysis
• Drinking water and wastewater analysis
• Liquid chromatography
• Mass spectrometry

Assoziierte Kollegiatin im Forschungskolleg NRW: FUTURE WATER

• cytotoxicity
• endocrine effects
• genotoxicity

• Compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA) using gas chromatography and liquid chromatography coupled to isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS)
• Recent applications: methane oxidation, product authenticity, contaminant degradation, biomethylation, pharmaceutical analysis, food web analyses

• Development, validation and application of microextraction techniques (ITEX, SPME) for GC-MS analysis of volatile and semivolatile compounds
• Sample pretreatment for bioanalytical tests

• GCxGC-MS of complex mixtures
• RLC-HRMS for suspect screening and non-target analysis
• Miniaturized LC: Characterization, use in LCxLC, and applications

• Fundamental mechanisms in oxidative water treatment processes
• Reaction pathways in pollutant degradation and by-product formation
• Development of oxidation modules for analytical processes

• Geographical health research in multi- and interdisciplinary contexts on water issues
• Integrated health approaches: One Health
• Antibiotic resistance

• Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in the WHO European Region
• Water and sanitation safety planning approaches

• Flood protection
• Grassland biodiversity monitoring
• Grassland management

• Development and coordination of innovation projects in water management
• Biological wastewater treatment/special processes
• Phosphorus recovery from wastewater and sewage sludge
• Greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment

• Oxidative Processes
• Instrumental analytics of micropollutants
• Advanced wastewater treatment

• Stream ecology
• Multiple stressors
• Toxicants
• Aquatic fungi (hyphomycetes)
• Macroinvertebrates
• Ecosystem processes
• Environmental chemistry
• Passive sampling

• Water Quality
• Ecotoxicology
• In Vitro Bioassays
• Endocrine Disruptors
• Genotoxicity
• Cytotoxicity

• more efficient use of hydropower assets as balancing reserves for novel renewables such as wind and solar power, assessment of the operational flexibility of hydropower under environmental obligations and other constraints
• advanced real-time control techniques in regional water systems
• data assimilation in hydrological models in combination with remote sensing and ground data to identify the state of hydrological system as a basis of forecasting and decision making
• novel numerical schemes for the simplified modeling of water resources systems in data assimilation frameworks and optimization models including algorithmic differentiation and model reduction techniques

• Legionella
• hygienically relevant bacteria
• Antibiotic-resistant bacteria
• Antibiotic resistance genes

• Environmental parasitology (Influence of restoration measures on parasite communities in running waters)
• Parasite communities in snails and fishes

• Importance of parasites for biodiversity
• Indication of free-living species by parasite evidence
• (Cryptic) diversity of digenean trematodes
• Morphological and molecular identification of digenean trematodes

• Parasites as (waterborne) pathogens in humans and animals.(e.g. pathogens of Swimmer´s itch, liver flukes)

• Macroecological analysis of the effects of anthropogenic pressures on the (freshwater) ecosystems
• Large-scale analysis on the effects of land use

• Bioanalytics and bioassay development
• Zebrafish research
• Oxidative stress detection
• Passive dosing
• Science communication

• aquatic ecology
• disease ecology
• parasitology
• biodiversity

• Molecular lab work
• Protistan diversity

• Complexity and Regulation of the metabolism in Archaea, the third domain of life
• Challenges of Life at high temperature; non-catalyzed reactions at high temperature (thermolabile intermediates)
• Stress response, transcription regulation, signal transduction via protein phosphorylation
• Biotechnological applications (e.g. metabolic engineering in thermophilic Archaea, enzyme cascades and biocatalysis)

• Bioinformatics
• Microbial ecology
• Genome-resolved metagenomics
• Nanopore long-read sequencing

• Determination of macroinvertebratesy
• Determination of adult dragonflies and damselflies
• Vegetation mappingy
• Effects of extreme weather conditions (low flow and floods) on organisms in and at streams

• Water protection officer
• Wastewater treatment plant
• Water Framework Directive
• Elimination of trace substances

• Environmental parasitology (correlation between environmental conditions and parasite occurrence)
• Parasite communities of fish, snails and crayfish
• physiological effects of parasites on their host (biochemical and molecular biological analyses)
• human parasites (liver fluke, intestinal fluke, Schistosoma, cercarial dermatitis)

• trace analyses of toxic and essential elements (ICP-MS, AAS, Voltammetry)
• Trace elements in ecosystems and impact on the environment
• Micropollutants in the environment and their effects on biota
• ecotoxicological test methods (MariETT, C. elegans, Daphnia, algae, etc)

• distribution of non-native animals
• species of invasive parasites
• ecological impacts of non-native species

• protecting endangered species (e.g. freshwater pearl mussel)
• status and distribution of endangered species
• influence of parasites on biodiversity

Kollegiatin im Forschungskolleg NRW: FUTURE WATER

• Anaerobic cultivation of microorganisms
• DNA Stable isotope probing

• Sustainable Development, Interdisciplinarity
• Green Economy
• Sustainable/Resilient Cities
• Natural Resources, Waters, Biodiversity, Sustainable Production/Consumption, Sustainable Agri-Food Systems, Environmental Risks and Resilience
• Education for Sustainable Development
• Empirical Economic/Socal Research

• Water chemistry and environmental chemistry
• Environmental analysis and effects of organic and inorganic parameters
• Fate of substances in wastewater treatment and drinking water purification

• (Small) Hydropower
• Ecological continuity
• hydromorphology
• ecological modelling
• river restoration
• water quality modelling

• Thoracic oncology, particularly lung tumours
• Interstitial lung diseases

• Infectious diseases
• Biofilms
• Comparative Pathology

• Occupational diseases
• Dust deposition

• Transmission electron microscopy
• Scanning electron microscopy
• x-ray microanalysis

• Automated sample preparation techniques
• Aqueous environmental samples
• GC-MS, GC-MS/MS

• ecology, evolution and biodiversity
• origin, adaptation and species interaction with environment

• Polymeric membranes and membrane technologies
• Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), functional hydrogels and stimuli-responsive polymers
• Surface functionalization of materials to tailor affinity, biocompatible, antifouling, stimuli-responsive, adsorptive, or catalytic functions
• Nanoparticle / polymer hybrid materials
• Application of novel or advanced materials in water purification, in bioseparation and other areas of bio- or medical technologies, and in energy technologies

• Microbial Life in Oil
• Hydrocarbon-Producing Algae/li>
• Microbial Community Assembly and Structure

• Innovative monitoring strategies for environmental quality management especially for surface waters
• Environmental forensics of anthropogenic pollution and processes in different environmental archives
• Instrumental analysis of organic micropollutants with LC-MSMS

• bioassessment
• biomonitoring
• invertebrates
• molecular genetics (eDNA, DNA Metabarcoding)
• groundwater
• caves
• collections

• Aquatic ecology
• Ecophysiology
• Phenotypic plasticity
• Inducible defenses
• Chemical signalling cues
• Biotic & abiotic stressors
• Gene editing procedures
• Transcriptomics

• gene flow in stream ecosystems
• identification of gene flow/dispersal barriers for macroinvertebrates
• analysis of recolonization processes after renaturation of streams
• genetic markers: microsatellites, mtDNA, SNPs (RAD-seq)

• speciation processes, cryptic species

• process design and planning of water and wastewater treatment systems
• preparation and assessment of energy and CO2-balances
• microbiological/molecular biological working methods
• environmental analytics

• Development and coordination of national and European research projects
• Economy and Management
• Water reuse, Circular Economy
• Digitalization

• Aquatic biodiversity monitoring
• DNA based identification methods (DNA barcoding, DNA metabarcoding)
• eDNA metabarcoding
• Population genetics (mtDNA, ddRADseq)
• Multiple stressors in river ecosystems
• Macrozoobenthos

• Gas chromatography methods (GC-MS/MS, GC-IMS, coupled systems)
• Fatty acid and nitrosamine analysis in various matrices
• Oxidative processes for drinking and wastewater treatment
• HPLC and fluorescence spectroscopy

• trace material analysis
• non-Target Screening
• drinking water analysis

• standardized tests (Daphnia magna, Lumbriculus variegatus, C. elegans and algae)
• non-standardized exposition experiments
• biomarker analysis

• DNA-based biodiversity monitoring
• DNA metabarcoding
• Malaise traps
• Insects

• Wastewater treatment and sewage sludge treatment
• New technologies for wastewater treatment
• Process technology, design and operation

• plant engineering
• national & international experience in planning and handling of projects for municipal or industrial clients in the field of sewage sludge treatment as well as water treatment

• Aquifer microbiomes (multi-omics analysis)
• Biogeochemistry (microbe-mineral-organic matter interactions)
• Groundwater quality (high As groundwaters etc.)

• Microbial ecology
• Bacterial phylogeny and taxonomy
• Genomics, metagenomics

• Modeling and forecasting of energy markets
• Statistics/machine learning/artificial intelligence for energy -, environment - and water economics
• Risk- and portfolio management
• Storage optimization (e.g. hydro pump storages)
• Probabilistic forecasting-, reduction and evaluation methods

• Industrial Water Treatment
• Odour
• Corrosion due to hydrogen sulfide

• hydromorphology
• river Restoration
• monitoring
• UAV (Drone) survey
• photogrammetry
• GIS Geographical Information System
• machine Learning