Job offers - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

Closing date for applications: 07. January 2026 • Location: - Master thesis on the use of sludge based activated carbons for micropollutant removal (f/m/x)

We are looking for a motivated Master’s student (f/m/x) to investigate how advanced oxidation processes and sludge-based activated carbon can work together to remove persistent mobile organic compounds and their transformation products from wastewater. The project combines lab-scale treatment experiments with LC-HRMS analysis and data evaluation.

Unsolicited applications:

Do you find our research topics exciting, are you studying or have a degree in chemistry, (micro)biology, chemical engineering, applied physics or similar, and would you like to join our team?

Then you can send an unsolicited application to the Department of Technical Biogeochemistry as an intern, Bachelor's or Master's student. You are welcome to contact our secretariat (see right column) or the heads of the working groups directly.

Jobs for doctoral candidates and employees can be found on the Job page of the UFZ .

Contact

Head:
Dr. Katrin Mackenzie
Department of Technical Biogeochemistry
Katrin Mackenzie

Office:
Mrs. Julia Dallos
Julia Dallos

Phone: +49 341 6025 4743 (via Zoom)

Permoserstraße 15 | 04318 Leipzig | Germany

Dr. Katrin Mackenzie

The chemist is head of the Department Technical Biogeochemistry at the UFZ site in Leipzig. Her research focuses on the development of new processes and materials for the removal of pollutants from water, with an emphasis on in situ groundwater purification. She is particularly interested in the combination of sorptive enrichment and chemical pollutant degradation. Halogenated pollutants ranging from chlorinated solvents to poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are the focus of interest, as is the implementation of environmental technology processes for their removal from water.

Katrin Mackenzie is since 2017 elected member of the scientific-technical staff in the supervisory board of the UFZ. She is a technical reviewer for a wide variety of funding agencies and journals and teaches "Technical Environmental Chemistry" at the University of Leipzig.