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New Lecturer in Environmental Science Appointed

15 Jan 2021

Dr Andre Banning has joined BEES as a new Lecturer contributing to teaching and research in Environmental and Earth Sciences.

Dr Banning is the newly appointed Lecturer in Environmental Science at UCC麓s School of BEES. Andre is a geologist educated at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of M眉nster, Germany. He obtained his PhD from RWTH Aachen 深夜亚洲福利久久, Germany, working on accumulation and mobilization processes of geogenic arsenic and uranium in different sedimentary environments. He then moved to Ruhr 深夜亚洲福利久久 Bochum, Germany, where he completed his postdoctoral fellowship with a habilitation on the occurrence and fate of trace and minor elements in used aquifer systems, and was appointed as a Lecturer in Applied Geology afterwards.

Andre麓s research is on inorganic aquatic geochemistry, water-rock and human-environment interactions. He is interested in characterizing sources, mobility, transport and risk assessment of inorganic substances in the geosphere and their impact on water resources, ecosystems and human health. Thereby, the focus is on minor and trace elements as well as nutrient cycling in both natural and anthropogenically influenced systems (mining, agriculture, energy and drinking water supply, climate change). Andre aims to contribute to a better qualitative and quantitative understanding of the spatial and temporal distribution of environmental constituents, the identification of relevant hydrogeochemical processes (water-solid interactions, anthropogenic triggers etc.), the evolution and impact of chemical water quality as well as the resulting assessment of current and future sustainable management and use of natural resources like groundwater, soil and geothermal energy. To accomplish this, he combines multi-scale field and laboratory methods, supported by hydrogeochemical modelling approaches.