Prof. Dr. Janet Hering Directorate Eawag Ueberlandstrasse 133 P. O. Box 611 8600 Duebendorf Switzerland

Phone +41 44 823 5001 Fax +41 44 823 5398 Office FC-E07 janet.hering@eawag.ch

Janet Hering

Research Interests

Biogeochemical cycling of trace metals and metalloids:

microbial redox cycling; field studies of metal redox cycling, mobilization, and sequestration

Mineral weathering and reactions at mineral surfaces:

mechanisms and kinetics of dissolution and precipitation reactions; macroscopic, spectroscopic, and modeling studies of sorption processes

Water treatment processes for removal of inorganic contaminants:

role of sorption in contaminant removal; design of novel sorbents

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Research Group

The Hering research group is a "virtual" research group (i.e., all group members are jointly supervised by Prof. Hering and another member of the Eawag research staff). 

Current Ph.D. students:

• Claire Farnsworth
• Vanessa Sternitzke (direct supervisor: Annette Johnson)
• Joanne Favre-Bulle (direct supervisor: Beat Müller)
• Matthias Rudolf von Rohr (direct supervisor: Urs von Gunten)