Personen

Research Interests

• Contaminant hydrogeology, and Hydro(geo)chemistry

• Environmental analytics

• Compound-specific stable isotope analysis (Cl-,Br-,C-,and H- CSIA)

• Isoscaping and Geostatistics

Curriculum Vitae

10.2008-03.2011 MSc study in Tropical Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Environmental management, TU Darmstadt, Germany

09.2000-08.2005 BSc study in Applied Geology, Mekelle University, Ethiopia

Recent Work Experience

Since 10.2023 Technical staff at the Aquatic geochemistry group, Institute of Applied Geoscience, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Since 10.2023 Research Associate at the Institute of Construction and Building Materials, TU Darmstadt, Germany

07.2021-09.2023 Research Associate at the Chair of Material Flow Management and Resource Economy, Institute IWAR, TU Darmstadt, Germany

12.2016-05.2020 Research Associate at the Hydrogeology group, Institute of Applied Geoscience, TU Darmstadt, Germany

4.2011-11.2016 Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, Mekelle University, Ethiopia

Publications

• Asfaw, Berhane Abrha; Sakaguchi-Söder, Kaori ; Schiedek, Thomas; Michelsen, Nils; Bernstein, Anat ; Siebner, Hagar; Schüth, Christoph (2023): Isotopic evidence (δ13C, δ37Cl, δ2H) for distinct transformation mechanisms of chloroform: Catalyzed H2-water system vs. zero-valent iron (ZVI). In: JECE, 11 DOI:10.1016/j.jece.2023.110005

• Kaleab Adhena Abera, Tesfamichael Gebreyohannes, Berhane Abrha, Miruts Hagos,Gebremedhin Berhane , Abdelwassie Hussien , Ashebir Sewale Belay , Marc Van Camp and Kristine Walraevens (2022): Vulnerability Mapping of Groundwater Resources of Mekelle City and Surroundings, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. In: Water 2022, 14(16), 2577; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14162577

• Asfaw, Berhane Abrha; Sakaguchi-Söder, Kaori; Siebner, Hagar; Bernstein, Anat;Schüth, Christoph (2020): Optimization of compound-specific chlorine stable isotope analysis of chloroform using the Taguchi design of experiments.In: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Volume: 34, Issue: 23, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8922

• Bernstein, Anat ; Studny, Raz ; Shyntychea, Vinolia ; Kurtzman, Daniel ; Ganot, Yonatan ; Katz, Yoram; Asfaw, Berhane Abrha ; Sakaguchi-Söder, Kaori ; Schüth, Christoph ; Siebner, Hagar (2020):Low Trihalomethane Formation during Managed Aquifer Recharge with Chlorinated Desalinated Water. In: Water, (3), 12. mdpi, S. 711, DOI: 10.3390/w12030711