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Slovenia
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
9075
World Ranking
5005
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Slovenia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Slovenia Leader Award

Overview

Ester Heath is affiliated with the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications addressing pollution, health-related toxicology, and mutagenesis. Additional subfields in their work include analytical chemistry, toxicology, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics, including:

  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Analytical chemistry methods development
  • Forensic toxicology and drug analysis
  • Toxic organic pollutants impact
  • Water treatment and disinfection
  • Insect utilization and effects

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Heath include David Heath, Ana Kovačić, Maria Laimou-Geraniou, Lubertus Bijlsma, and Tina Kosjek.

Heath has published multiple articles in various scientific journals, with notable outlets such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Water Research, and Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Heath include:

  • A global multinational survey of cefotaxime-resistant coliforms in urban wastewater treatment plants, 2020, Environment International
  • New psychoactive substances in several European populations assessed by wastewater-based epidemiology, 2021, Water Research
  • Microalgae-based removal of contaminants of emerging concern: Mechanisms in Chlorella vulgaris and mixed algal-bacterial cultures, 2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Biotransformation study of antidepressant sertraline and its removal during biological wastewater treatment, 2020, Water Research
  • Three years of wastewater surveillance for new psychoactive substances from 16 countries, 2023, Water Research X

Best Publications

  • Consolidated vs new advanced treatment methods for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern from urban wastewater.

    Luigi Rizzo;Sixto Malato;Demet Antakyali;Vasiliki G. Beretsou

  • Use of hydrodynamic cavitation in (waste)water treatment.

    Matevž Dular;Tjaša Griessler-Bulc;Ion Gutierrez-Aguirre;Ester Heath

  • Removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater by biological processes, hydrodynamic cavitation and UV treatment.

    Mojca Zupanc;Tina Kosjek;Martin Petkovšek;Matevž Dular

  • Determination of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDs) residues in water samples

    Tina Kosjek;Ester Heath;Ales Krbavcic

  • Fate of carbamazepine during water treatment.

    Tina Kosjek;Henrik R. Andersen;Boris Kompare;Anna Ledin

  • Determination of UV filters and antimicrobial agents in environmental water samples

    Petra Cuderman;Ester Heath

  • Occurrence, fate and determination of cytostatic pharmaceuticals in the environment

    Tina Kosjek;Ester Heath

  • Antiviral drugs in aquatic environment and wastewater treatment plants: A review on occurrence, fate, removal and ecotoxicity.

    Christina Nannou;Anna Ofrydopoulou;Eleni Evgenidou;David Heath

  • Ecotoxicity of carbamazepine and its UV photolysis transformation products

    Erica Donner;Tina Kosjek;Signe Qualmann;Kresten Ole Kusk

  • Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

    Iria González-Mariño;Iria González-Mariño;Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba;Nikiforos A. Alygizakis;Maria Jesús Andrés-Costa

  • Combination of in vitro bioassays for the determination of cytotoxic and genotoxic potential of wastewater, surface water and drinking water samples.

    Bojana Zegura;Ester Heath;Andrej Cernosa;Metka Filipic

  • Urinary BPA measurements in children and mothers from six European member states: Overall results and determinants of exposure

    Adrian Covaci;Elly Den Hond;Tinne Geens;Eva Govarts

  • Trace-level determination of pharmaceutical residues by LC-MS/MS in natural and treated waters. A pilot-survey study

    María Dolores Hernando;María Dolores Hernando;E. Heath;Mira Petrovic;Damià Barceló

  • Influence of pharmaceutical residues on the structure of activated sludge bacterial communities in wastewater treatment bioreactors.

    Barbara Kraigher;Tina Kosjek;Tina Kosjek;Ester Heath;Boris Kompare

  • Environmental occurrence, fate and transformation of benzodiazepines in water treatment

    T. Kosjek;S. Perko;M. Zupanc;M. Zanoški Hren

  • Removal of pharmaceutical residues in a pilot wastewater treatment plant

    Tina Kosjek;Ester Heath;Boris Kompare

  • Chemical and toxicological characterisation of anticancer drugs in hospital and municipal wastewaters from Slovenia and Spain.

    Marina Isidori;Margherita Lavorgna;Chiara Russo;Michael Kundi

  • Fluorouracil in the environment: analysis, occurrence, degradation and transformation.

    Tina Kosjek;Silva Perko;Dušan Žigon;Ester Heath

  • The occurrence and source identification of bisphenol compounds in wastewaters.

    Marjeta Česen;Kaja Lenarčič;Vesna Mislej;Meta Levstek

  • Rotation generator of hydrodynamic cavitation for water treatment

    Martin Petkovšek;Mojca Zupanc;Matevž Dular;Tina Kosjek

Frequent Co-Authors

Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Miren López de Alda
Miren López de Alda Spanish National Research Council
Adrian Covaci
Adrian Covaci University of Antwerp
José Benito Quintana
José Benito Quintana University of Santiago de Compostela
Milena Horvat
Milena Horvat Jožef Stefan Institute
Ettore Zuccato
Ettore Zuccato Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Sara Castiglioni
Sara Castiglioni Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Despo Fatta-Kassinos
Despo Fatta-Kassinos University of Cyprus
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs University of Antwerp
Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern
Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern University of Bath

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