Christian Schurig
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department for Environmental Biotechnology
Permoserstrasse 15
D-04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: +49 341 235 1757
Fax +49 341 235 1471
Research Interests
I am interested in trace species and their emission and fate in the environment as well as feedback mechanisms to ecosystems. My current research focusses on:
- development of biosensors for assesing contaminant degradation on polluted sites in-situ
- application of stable isotope tracer as well as stable isotope fractionation techniques for quantifiying in-situ contaminant turnover
- development of methods for identifying hot spots of pollutant degradation by means of scanning electron microscopy coupled to energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX)
- measurement of methane emissions on a boreal fen by means of eddy covariance technique
Curriculum vitae
since 2009
PhD student at the UFZ, Department for Environmental Biotechnolgy, in EU project ModelProbe. Topic of the thesis: Assessment of in-situ microbial activity by non- or low invasive methods
2007 - 2009
Master of Science in Meteorology at University of Helsinki (Finland) in the framework of international study program 'Atmosphere-Biosphere-Studies'. Thesis: Methane dynamics at a boreal fen measured by eddy covariance technique.
Research Assistant at University of Helsinki, Division of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysics
2008
Study exchange to University of Lund (Sweden)
2007 - 2008
Study exchange to University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
2003 - 2007
Bachelor of Science in Forestry at Dresden University of Technology (Germany) including internships at WWF-Caucasus and Georgian Agricultural University Tbilisi (Georgia). Thesis: Uranfestlegung an Cladophora spec. unterschiedlicher Vitalität unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Sulfat.
