Head:
Prof. Dr. Frank-Dieter Kopinke
Department of Environmental Engineering
frank-dieter.kopinke@ufz.de
Office:
Claudia Misch
Phone +49 341 235-1258
tuchem-sek@ufz.de
Permoserstraße 15 | 04318 Leipzig | Germany
Prof. Dr. Frank-Dieter Kopinke
He is a chemist and Head of the Department of Environmental Engineering at the UFZ in Leipzig. He also teaches on Technical Environmental Chemistry at the Faculty for Chemistry and Mineralogy at the University of Leipzig. His current research area is environmental engineering with a focus on the behaviour of chemicals in environmental compartments, modern remediation technologies for contaminated soil and water, the cleaning of surface water and contaminated ground water, environmental catalysts and nanotechnology. Frank-Dieter Kopinke is co-author of the "Roadmap for Catalysis Research in Germany" published in 2010 by the German Catalysis Society. He has been awarded the Kurt Schwabe Prize by the Saxon Academy of Sciences and the Friedrich Wöhler Prize by the German Chemical Society.