April 2025: Our PhD student (Jacopo Cogorno) has published a new paper in Environmental Science & Technology. The paper provides insights on the impact of air-water and mineral-water interactions on PFOS transport in unsaturated porous media DOI
April 2025: The members of the Aquatic Geochemistry group participated and presented 5 posters at the 1st RMU Geoscience conference, held at TU Darmstadt on April 3rd.
March 2025: Our group published a new contribution on transport and surface complexation in subsurface flow through systems in Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry DOI
March 2025: Our Postdoc Andrea Gallo has published a new paper in the journal Electrochimica Acta. The work is a comprehensive assessment of the role and interplay of physical and chemical properties on electrokinetic transport dynamics DOI
March 2025: Congratulations to our former PhD student Jacopo Cogorno (graduated Nov. 2024) for receiving the Hibbitt Engineering Fellowship to carry on his postdoc at Brown University (USA)!
March 2025: The Aquatic Geochemistry group welcomes a new member! Mr. Alireza Moradi is a new PhD student in the group and he will explore the numerical modeling of electrokinetic processes in subsurface porous media.
February 2025: Our PhD student Henning Wienkenjohann has published a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Water. The work was done in collaboration with Technical University of Denmark and UFZ Leipzig DOI
January 2025: The Aquatic Geochemistry group welcomes three new members! Dr. Rodrigo Pérez Illanes, previously postdoc at UPC Barcelona (ES) and expert on reactive transport modeling, is a new postdoc in the group. Mr. Thanujan Tharumarajah is a new PhD student in the DFG project ChargeHET and Ms. Kanij Islam is a new research assistant in the FiF project EK-Microbes.
January 2025: Our postdoc (Riccardo Sprocati) has published a new paper in Advances in Water Resources. The work was done in collaboration with the group of Porous Media across scales at Politecnico di Milano and presents a global sensitivity analysis for electrokinetic transport in porous media. DOI
December 2024: Our postdoc (Navid Ahmadi) has published a new paper in Water Resources Research exploring the interaction of water evaporation and oxidative dissolution of sulfide minerals. DOI
November 2024: Our colleague Jacopo Cogorno has successfully defended his Doctoral project titled “PFOS fate in dynamic and multiphase subsurface environments: exploring electrostatic and chemical properties regulating PFOS accumulation at mineral-water interfaces” at Technical University of Denmark, DTU Sustain, under the supervision of Professor Massimo Rolle.
October 2024: The Aquatic Geochemistry group welcomes two new members! Dr. Ashish Rajyaguru, previously postdoc at Paul Scherrer Institute (CH), was awarded a Career Bridging Grant to work in our group and study mineral/water interactions. Mr. Ali Toorajipour is a new PhD student in the DFG project GAS-REACT (“Gas interchange and REACTive processes in coupled subsurface/atmosphere systems”)
September 2024: Our colleague Henning Wienkenjohann has successfully defended his Doctoral project titled “Multi-scale transport and thermally-enhanced bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes in subsurface porous media” at Technical University of Denmark, DTU Sustain developed under the supervision of Professor Massimo Rolle and DTU Associate Professor Klaus Mosthaf.
September 2024: Our PhD student (Henning Wienkenjohann) has published a new paper in Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. The paper explores the potential of combining the temperature increase from low-temperature Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage with In Situ Bioremediation (ATES-ISB). DOI
July 2024: Our PhD student (Jacopo Cogorno) has published a new paper in Environmental Science and Technology. The paper provides insight in the interplay of multicomponent interactions and surface charge effects on PFOS adsorption to goethite surfaces under flow-through conditions. DOI
May 2024: Our project “EK-Microbes: Impact of electrokinetics on microbial activity and contaminant biodegradation” has been funded by the Forum for Interdisciplinary Research (TU Darmstadt). Project page
April 2024 Massimo and Jacopo have participated and presented their research work at the EGU General Assembly 2024 in Vienna, Austria.
April 2024: Our project “ChargeHet – Electrostatic interactions and electrostatic heterogeneity: the hidden control of contaminant transport in groundwater” has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Project page
January 2024: Our PhD student (Jacopo Cogorno) has published a new paper in Environmental Science and Technology. The paper provides insights into the key control of variable solution chemistry on PFOS adsorption to mineral surfaces and the importance to develop surface complexation models integrating mechanistic insights for the accurate prediction of PFOS mobility and environmental fate. DOI
December 2023: Several members of the Aquatic Geochemistry group (Andrea Gallo, Riccardo Sprocati, Henning Wienkenjohann and Jacopo Cogorno) have participated and presented their research work at the AGU 2023 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California.
December 2023: Our joint research proposal with University of Stuttgart was selected for funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The objective of this project is to investigate gas exchange phenomena between the subsurface and atmosphere under ongoing climate change. Project page
November 2023: Dr. Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, group leader at Eawag/ETH Zurich, visited our group and gave a very interesting lecture about solute mixing and reactions in multiphase and bio-colonized porous media as part of the Geoscientific Colloquium event in Institute of Applied Geosciences at TU Darmstadt.
September 2023: Dr. Navid Ahmadi has been awarded the Ernst-Ludwig mobility grant (for an extended research stay in the Subsurface Environmental Processes Group at Eawag/ETH Zurich.