Prof. Dr. Frank-Dieter Kopinke
Contact/Address
Prof. Dr. Frank-Dieter Kopinke
Former Head of Department
Department of Environmental Engineering
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel. 0341 235 1071
frank-dieter.kopinke@ufz.de
CV
2003 - 2021
Head of the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
since 1998
Professor of Technical Environmental Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, University Leipzig
1991 - 2003
Senior Scientist in the Department of Remediation Research at UFZ
1991 - 1992
Substitute professorship of Technical Chemistry at the TU Berlin
1989 - 1991
Guest scientist at the Reichsuniversity Gent (Belgien), Institute of Petrochemical Technology (G.F. Froment)
1986 / 1992
Promotion B on "Coke formation during steam-cracking of hydrocarbons" at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and Habilitation for Technical Chemistry at the University Leipzig
1975 - 1989
Scientist at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the AdW in Leipzig
1975
PhD at the TH Leuna-Merseburg under the supervision of W. Pritzkow on "Kinetics of sulfochlorination of paraffins"
1970 - 1973
Chemistry studies and Diploma at the TH Leuna-Merseburg
1968 - 1970
Special courses of chemistry and university-entrance diploma at the TH Leuna-Merseburg
Present Fields of Research
Environmental chemistry, environmental catalysis, catalysis in water, catalysis with nanoparticles, Pd-based catalysts, oxidation and reduction of organic compounds, halogenated organic compounds, remediation technologies, treatment of wastewaters and contaminated groundwaters, isotope fractionation by physical processes and chemical reactions, sorption and mobility of organic compounds in environmentals compartments.