Dr. Katrin Mackenzie

Dr. Katrin Mackenzie

Contact/Addresse

Dr. Katrin Mackenzie
Senior Scientist,
Deputy Head of the Department

Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Environmental Engineering
Permoserstrasse 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
katrin.mackenzie@ufz.de

Phone +49 341 235 1760 (Office)
+49 341 235 1584 (Laboratory)
+49 341 235 1673 (Laboratory)
Fax +49 341 235 45 1760

Professional Career


Education

Diploma in Chemistry and PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) 1991 from Technical University Leuna-Merseburg with focus on Organometallic Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis

Board Membership

Member of the Supervisory Board of the UFZ since July 2017.


since 2021

Acting Head of the Department "Environmental Engineering"

since 2015

Head of the Working Group "Environmental Catalysis - Reductive Processes"

since 1994

Scientist at UFZ

1992-1994

Postdoctoral Research Associate, State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

1990-1992

Scientist, Technical University Leuna-Merseburg

1991

Research stay (4 months) at Oxford University (UK), Stifterverband Fellow

1989-1990

Research stay (5 months) at Institute of Catalysis of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk

Research Areas


chemical methods for water treatment, groundwater treatment, nanoremediation, Carbo-Iron®, Colloidal Activated Carbon, environmental catalysis, reduction methods, dehalogenation of organic pollutants, halogenated micropollutants, poly- und perfluorinated surfactants (PFAS), PMOCs, nanocatalysts for wastewater treatment, palladium- and copper catalysts, targeted subsurface particle transport, activation of persulfate for water treatment, reactive material design, carbon adsorbers.

Projects


CLEANER

Fostering pollutant-sink functions of Blue-Green Infrastructures: Towards local urban water cycles in climate-resilient cities (UFZ PhD College, Duration 04/2023-03/2026)

KONATES

Model application on the use of contaminated aquifers for heat management with ATES systems (BMBF, funding code 03G0916A, term 08/2022 - 07/2025)

FABEKO

Groundwater protection through areal treatment of PFAS-contaminated soils by on-site soil elution and water treatment by electrostimulated activated carbon (BMBF, funding code 02WQ1577C, duration 03/2021 - 08/2023)

Fate-PFT

Sound source identification and degradation assessment of polyfluorinated surfactants (PFAS) in the water cycle by means of component-specific isotope analysis and diagnostic ratios (BMBF- KMU-Innovativ, funding reference 02WQ1598B, term 07/2021 - 12/2023)

ContaSorb

Development of composite materials for sorption and destruction of ”conventional“ and „new“ halogenated groundwater pollutants (German BMBF-funded Project with 5 partners, grant agreement number 03XP0090A, time period 02/2017 – 06/2020)

NanoRem

Taking Nanotechnological Remediation Processes from Lab Scale to End User Applications for the Restoration of a Clean Environment (EU-Project with 27 Partners, Grant agreement no: 309517, time period 02/2013 – 01/2017) 

NanoPOP

Mikrobial synthesis and recycling of hybrid palladium nano-catalysts and their utilizationin treatment of persistent environmental pollutants (German BMBF-funded project, grant agreement number 03X3571B, time period 02/2013 – 01/2016)

Fe-Nanosit

Iron-based nanoparticles and nanocomposite structures for removal of pollutants from ground- and wastewater (German BMBF-funded project, grant agreement number 03X0082A, time period 04/2010 – 12/2013)


Publications

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7877-4810