Dr. Katja Bunzel
Contact
Dr. rer. nat. Dipl. Geoecologist
Research Assistant
Department Bioenergy
Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig I Germany
in cooperation with:
Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum - DBFZ
Torgauer Straße 116
04347 Leipzig I Germany
Tel: +49 341 2434-409
Education and professional experience
| since 2011 | Research assistant, Department "Bioenergy", Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig |
| 2011-2014 |
University of Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Quantitative Landscape Ecology in Landau Dissertation thesis: “Pesticide sources and landscape elements driving aquatic pesticide exposure and effects on macroinvertebrate communities” |
| 2009-2011 | Research assistant, Department "Bioenergy Systems", German Biomass Research Centre (DBFZ) in Leipzig |
| 2005-2009 | Research assistant, Department "Water", German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) in Dessau |
| 2004 |
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Center of Energy and Environmental Studies, Groningen, the Netherlands Master's thesis: “Hydrological consequences of changing from food crops to energy crops – a modelling study for the Netherlands” |
| 2003 | Exchange semester at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway |
| 1998-2005 | Study of Geoecology, Technical University of Freiberg |
Projects
Selected publications
Bunzel, K., Bovet, J., Thrän, D., Eichhorn, M. (2019): Hidden outlaws in the forest? A legal and spatial analysis of onshore wind energy in Germany. Energy Research & Social Science 55, 14-25
Bunzel, K., Schäfer, R. B., Thrän, D., Kattwinkel, M. (2015): Pesticide runoff from energy crops: A threat to aquatic invertebrates?. Science of the Total Environment 537, 187-196
Bunzel, K.: Pesticide sources and landscape elements driving aquatic pesticide exposure and effects on macroinvertebrate communities. Dissertation thesis. University of Koblenz-Landau, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1057976210/34Bunzel, K., Kattwinkel, M., Schauf, M., Thrän, D. (2014): Energy crops and pesticide contamination: Lessons learnt from the development of energy crop cultivation in Germany. Biomass & Bioenergy 70, 416-428
Bunzel, K., Liess, M., Kattwinkel, M. (2014): Landscape parameters driving aquatic pesticide exposure and effects. Environmental Pollution 186, 90-97
Bunzel, K., Kattwinkel, M., Liess, M. (2013): Effects of organic pollutants from wastewater treatment plants on aquatic invertebrate communities. Water Research 47 (2), 597-606
Thrän, D., Bunzel, K.; Seyfert, U.; Zeller, V.; Buchhorn M. (2011): DBFZ Report Nr. 7, Global and Regional Spatial Distribution of Biomass Potentials – Status quo and options for specification, DBFZ (Ed.), Fischer Druck, Leipzig
Bunzel, K.; Thrän, D. (2010): Energie aus Anbau- und Abfallbiomassen - Perspektiven für Europa. Beitrag im Tagungsband des 4. Witzenhäuser Biomasse-Forum, Witzenhausen, ISBN 3-928673-57-2