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The primary goals of the department of Environmental Chemistry are to achieve a mechanistic understanding of the exposure of the aquatic environment to anthropogenic organic (micro-) pollutants and the fate of these pollutants in the water cycle, and to derive mitigation measures to improve water quality

Here we study point and diffuse sources of organic compounds from urban and agricultural areas and aim

• to determine quantitatively the exposure of water bodies to a broad range of relevant chemical pollutants and their transformation products, and to predict pollution by modeling
  
  
• to study the different fate processes which determine the behavior and mass fluxes of contaminants in the aquatic environment
  
  
• to evaluate practical tools for reducing pollution by (i) improving chemical risk assessment and (ii) mitigation measures at the source as well as end-of-pipe options

Therefore the understanding of the processes transformation, transport and sorption of organic contaminants in the environment is essential. Important tools are organic trace analysis and modelling.