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Gerrit Schüürmann is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to related subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, molecular biology, computational theory and mathematics, and spectroscopy.

The scientist's work covers key topics including pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, computational drug discovery methods, toxic organic pollutants impact, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, and porphyrin metabolism and disorders.

Recent publications by Gerrit Schüürmann include:

  • Pesticides are the dominant stressors for vulnerable insects in lowland streams, 2021, Water Research
  • The Eco-Exposome Concept: Supporting an Integrated Assessment of Mixtures of Environmental Chemicals, 2021, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Computational material flow analysis for thousands of chemicals of emerging concern in European waters, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • ERGO: Breaking Down the Wall between Human Health and Environmental Testing of Endocrine Disrupters, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Calibration and field application of the Atlantic HLB Disk containing Chemcatcher® passive sampler - Quantitative monitoring of herbicides, other pesticides, and transformation products in German streams, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Albrecht Paschke
  • Rolf Altenburger
  • Werner Brack
  • Ralph Kühne
  • Shangwei Zhang

Schüürmann's scholarly output is also predominantly published in several scientific journals, including:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Chemical Research in Toxicology
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Best Publications

  • COSMO : a new approach to dielectric screening in solvents with explicit expressions for the screening energy and its gradient

    A. Klamt;G. Schüürmann

  • External Validation and Prediction Employing the Predictive Squared Correlation Coefficient — Test Set Activity Mean vs Training Set Activity Mean

    Gerrit Schüürmann;Ralf-Uwe Ebert;Jingwen Chen;Bin Wang

  • Mixture toxicity and its modeling by quantitative structure-activity relationships

    Rolf Altenburger;Monika Nendza;Gerrit Schüürmann

  • A new risk assessment approach for the prioritization of 500 classical and emerging organic microcontaminants as potential river basin specific pollutants under the European Water Framework Directive.

    Peter Carsten von der Ohe;Valeria Dulio;Jaroslav Slobodnik;Eric De Deckere

  • Persistent organic pollutants in agricultural soils of central Germany.

    M Manz;K.-D Wenzel;U Dietze;G Schüürmann

  • PREDICTION OF THE PKA OF CARBOXYLIC ACIDS USING THE AB INITIO CONTINUUM-SOLVATION MODEL PCM-UAHF

    Gerrit Schüürmann;Maurizio Cossi;Vincenzo Barone;Jacopo Tomasi

  • From the exposome to mechanistic understanding of chemical-induced adverse effects

    Beate I. Escher;Jörg Hackermüller;Tobias Polte;Stefan Scholz

  • Biomonitoring of airborne inorganic and organic pollutants by means of pine tree barks. I. Temporal and spatial variations

    H. Schulz;P. Popp;G. Huhn;H.-J. Stärk

  • A European perspective on alternatives to animal testing for environmental hazard identification and risk assessment

    Stefan Scholz;Erika Sela;Ludek Blaha;Thomas Braunbeck

  • Group contribution methods to estimate water solubility of organic chemicals

    R. Kühne;R.-U. Ebert;F. Kleint;G. Schmidt

  • Pesticides from wastewater treatment plant effluents affect invertebrate communities.

    Ronald Münze;Christin Hannemann;Polina Orlinskiy;Roman Gunold

  • Structural alerts--a new classification model to discriminate excess toxicity from narcotic effect levels of organic compounds in the acute daphnid assay.

    Peter C von der Ohe;Ralph Kühne;Ralf-Uwe Ebert;Rolf Altenburger

  • HIGH EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY FOR POPS IN REAL CONTAMINATED SOIL SAMPLES USING ACCELERATED SOLVENT EXTRACTION

    Andreas Hubert;Klaus-Dieter Wenzel;Michael Manz;Ludwig Weissflog

  • Prediction of michael-type acceptor reactivity toward glutathione.

    Johannes A. H. Schwöbel;Dominik Wondrousch;Yana K. Koleva;Judith C. Madden

  • Acute to chronic ratios in aquatic toxicity--variation across trophic levels and relationship with chemical structure.

    Jan Ahlers;Caroline Riedhammer;Michaela Vogliano;Ralf-Uwe Ebert

  • Calibrating the uptake kinetics of semipermeable membrane devices in water: impact of hydrodynamics.

    Branislav Vrana;Gerrit Schüürmann

  • Kinetic Glutathione Chemoassay To Quantify Thiol Reactivity of Organic Electrophiles—Application to α,β-Unsaturated Ketones, Acrylates, and Propiolates

    Alexander Böhme;Diana Thaens;Albrecht Paschke;Gerrit Schüürmann

  • Bioassay-Directed Identification of Organic Toxicants in River Sediment in the Industrial Region of Bitterfeld (Germany)—A Contribution to Hazard Assessment

    W. Brack;R. Altenburger;U. Ensenbach;M. Möder

  • Membrane-Enclosed Sorptive Coating. An Integrative Passive Sampler for Monitoring Organic Contaminants in Water

    Branislav Vrana;Peter Popp;and Albrecht Paschke;Gerrit Schüürmann

  • Multivariate Discrimination between Modes of Toxic Action of Phenols

    Aynur O. Aptula;Tatiana I. Netzeva;Iva V. Valkova;Mark T. D. Cronin

  • Correlation of aerobic biodegradability of sulfonated azo dyes with the chemical structure.

    Takahiro Suzuki;Simona Timofei;Ludovic Kurunczi;Uwe Dietze

  • Quantitative structure-activity relationships in environmental sciences, VII

    Fei Chen;Gerrit Schüürmann

  • New hydrolysis products of the beta-lactam antibiotic amoxicillin, their pH-dependent formation and search in municipal wastewater.

    Kristin Hirte;Bettina Seiwert;Gerrit Schüürmann;Thorsten Reemtsma

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Brack
Werner Brack Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Rolf Altenburger
Rolf Altenburger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Helmut Segner
Helmut Segner University of Bern
Peter Popp
Peter Popp Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Mark T. D. Cronin
Mark T. D. Cronin Liverpool John Moores University
Branislav Vrana
Branislav Vrana Masaryk University
Matthias Liess
Matthias Liess Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Henner Hollert
Henner Hollert Goethe University Frankfurt
Thomas Braunbeck
Thomas Braunbeck Heidelberg University
Ralf Schulz
Ralf Schulz University of Koblenz and Landau

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