Dr. Lukas Y. Wick

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Dr. Lukas Y. Wick
Head of Working Group Bioavailability
Deputy of the Head of Department

Department of Applied Microbial Ecology (AME)
Working Group Bioavailability
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany

Phone +49 341 6025 1316 (new!)

lukas.wick@ufz.de

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Lukas Wick

CV / Scientific Career

Education

1989

Diploma Chemistry; University of Basel, Switzerland

1994

Ph.D., M.A. Organic Chemistry; University of Basel, Switzerland

2010

Master of Management, Malik MZSG, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Professional experience

1990-1994

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry.
Expertise: Synthetic bio-organic Chemistry

1995-1997

Post-Doctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (MA), USA. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Expertise: Environmental Chemistry/Chemodynamics

1998

Research Associate, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Dübendorf, Switzerland. Department of Microbiology.
Expertise: Environmental Microbiology/Chemistry

1999-2004

Senior Research Associate, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne; Laboratory of Soil Science.
Expertise: Soil Microbiology; Pollutant bioavailability.

since 2004

Head of Group, Deputy of the Head of Department, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ; Department of Environmental Microbiology. Deputy Head of the Scientific and Technical Council of the UFZ.


Research interests

Our expertise relates to the bio-physical, physiological and ecological drivers of microbial degradation of organic contaminants in natural and built environments.

Specific research activities cover the

  • Biotransformation of contaminants: bioavailability, chemodynamics and microbial ecology.
  • Mycosphere ecology: bacterial fungal interactions as drivers for microbial ecosystem functioning.
  • Fungal biotechnology: Ecology-based remediation based on fungal bacterial interactions.
  • Electro-bioremediation: Stimulation of contaminant biotransformation by weak electric fields (electrokinetics).
  • Deposition and subsurface transport of microbes (bacteria & phages) and their impact on biodegradation.
  • Prediction of microbial activity and functions at the field scale.

Co-operations / Projects

  • 2021-2027: Tapping nature’s potential for sustainable production and a healthy environment – towards a waste-minimized sustainable bioeconomy TapNature
  • 2020-2024: Electric field effects on sorption and microbial degradation of waterborne (urban) contaminants
  • 2021-2025: Phages as vectors and indicators of biological information in the Earth‘s Critical Zone: Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft - Collaborative Research Centre AquaDiva (CRC AquaDiva (AquaDiva): AquaDiva
  • 2016-2022: Role of compost derived fungi for the colonization of the rhizosphere of table grapes by plant beneficial bacteria (Universidad de La Frontera; Temuco, Chile).
  • 2019-2022: Explorando el rol de los hongos en la dispersión de rizobacterias en praderas establecidos en la Patagonia Chilena (MEC80180048), partner: Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile.
  • 2019-2022: Elucidating biomarkers and functions of bacterial-fungal interactions during the degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at changing environmental conditions (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau, France) (FungDeg)

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 2000

  • Wick, L. Y., K. McNeill, M. Rojo, E. Medilanski, and P. M. Gschwend. Fate of benzene in a stratified lake receiving contaminated groundwater discharges from a Superfund site. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2000. 34: 4354-4362.


1998

  • Wick, L. Y., and P. M. Gschwend. Input and chemodynamic behavior of diphenylsulfone and ortho- and para-hydroxybiphenyl in a small lake receiving discharge from an adjacent Superfund site. Environ. Sci. Technol. 1998. 32: 1319-1328.
  • Wick, L. Y., and P. M. Gschwend. By-Products of a former phenol manufacturing site in a small lake adjacent to a Superfund site in the Aberjona Watershed. Environ. Health Perspect.. 1998. 106(4): 1069-1073.


1995

  • Wick, L., C. Tamm, and T. Boller. Synthesis of potential inhibitors of the ethylene biosynthesis: The diastereoisomers of 1-amino-2-bromocyclopropanecarboxylic Acid. Helv. Chim. Acta 1995. 78: 403-410.
  • Wick, L., C. Tamm, T. Boller, M. Neuemburger, and M. Zehnder. Synthesis and reactions of new 2-substituted 5-Phenyl-6-oxa-4-azaspiro (2,4)-hepten-7-one derivates. Tetrahedron 1995. 51: 10219-10230.