Tsegaye Adane Birhan

address:
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig

building: 7.3
office: 2.030
phone: +49 341 6025 1666

Tsegaye Adane Birhan

Research Interests

  • Aquatic chemical pollution and water quality monitoring, with a focus on the occurrence, distribution, and assessment of organic micropollutants (OMPs) in freshwater systems. 
  • Human and ecological risk assessment of environmental contaminants, integrating exposure and toxicological information to evaluate impacts on public health and ecosystems.
  • Environmental exposure science and pollution mitigation, including the development of monitoring approaches and strategies for managing chemical pollution in aquatic environments.

Curriculum Vitae

since 2026

PhD candidate at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Exposure Science, Leipzig, Germany.

2023 - 2025

Erasmus Mundus Master in Chemical Innovation and Regulation at the University of Barcelona, Spain and University of Bologna, Italy

2016 - 2018

MSc in Environmental Health at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia

2012 - 2016

BSc in Chemistry at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia

Publications 

2026

Yimer, T. F., Tibebe, D., Kassa, Y., Mulugeta, M., Alemu, A. K., Yenealem, D., ... Birhan, T.A., & Akele, M. L. (2026). Risk Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Water and Fish from Two Ethiopian Highland Lakes. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 109232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2026.109232.

2025

Fentie, T., Kassa, Y., Tibebe, D., Mulugeta, M., Akele, M. L., Alemu, A. K., ... & Birhan, T. A. (2025). Trace metal contamination and health risk assessment in fish from Lake Tana and Lake Hayqe, Ethiopia. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 20, 101705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101705.

2024

Gelaw, Y. B., Dagne, H., Adane, B., Yirdaw, G., Moges, M., Aneley, Z., ... & Birhan, T. A. (2024). Adsorptive removal of cadmium (II) from wastewater using activated carbon synthesized from stem of Khat (Catha edulis). Heliyon, 10(22). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e40389.

Yimer, T. F., Ayele, D. T., Brihanu, Y. K., Akele, M. L., Kassaw, M. M., Alemu, A. K., Yenealem, D., Birhan, T. A., ... & Molla, D. K. (2024). Ecological risk assessment of organochlorine pesticide residues in sediment samples from Lake Tana and Hayqe in Northwest Ethiopia. Emerging Contaminants, 10(4), 100354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emcon.2024.100354.

2023

Birhan, T. A., Bitew, B. D., Dagne, H., Amare, D. E., Azanaw, J., Andualem, Z., ... & Yimer, T. F. (2023). Household drinking water quality and its predictors in flood-prone settings of Northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional community-based study. Heliyon, 9 (4), e15072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15072.

2020

Adane, T., Haile, D., Dessie, A., Abebe, Y., & Dagne, H. (2020). Response surface methodology as a statistical tool for optimization of removal of chromium (VI) from aqueous solution by Teff (Eragrostis teff) husk activated carbon. Applied Water Science, 10(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13201-019-1120-8.