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Overview

Hansruedi Siegrist is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with specific attention to Pollution and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis as subfields.

The scientist's work covers topics including:

  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection

Siegrist has contributed to the field through publications in recognized venues, notably the CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry.

One of their recent papers is titled "Advanced Wastewater Treatment by Ozonation for Abatement of Micropollutants from Municipal Wastewater Effluents", published in 2025 in the CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry.

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as:

  • Urs von Gunten
  • Christa S. McArdell
  • Christian Abegglen
  • Marc Böhler
  • Juliane Hollender

This co-authorship reflects interdisciplinary interactions in the areas of water treatment, chemical processes, and environmental toxicology.

Best Publications

  • The IWA Anaerobic Digestion Model No 1 (ADM1)

    D.J. Batstone;J. Keller;I. Angelidaki;S.V. Kalyuzhnyi

  • Biological degradation of pharmaceuticals in municipal wastewater treatment: proposing a classification scheme.

    Adriano Joss;Sebastian Zabczynski;Anke Göbel;Burkhard Hoffmann

  • Scrutinizing pharmaceuticals and personal care products in wastewater treatment.

    Thomas A. Ternes;Adriano Joss;Hansruedi Siegrist

  • Oxidation of pharmaceuticals during ozonation of municipal wastewater effluents: a pilot study.

    Marc M. Huber;Anke Göbel;Adriano Joss;Nadine Hermann

  • Removal of pharmaceuticals and fragrances in biological wastewater treatment.

    Adriano Joss;Elvira Keller;Alfredo C. Alder;Anke Göbel

  • Elimination of organic micropollutants in a municipal wastewater treatment plant upgraded with a full-scale post-ozonation followed by sand filtration.

    Juliane Hollender;Saskia G. Zimmermann;Stephan Koepke;Martin Krauss

  • Fate of sulfonamides, macrolides, and trimethoprim in different wastewater treatment technologies

    Anke Göbel;Christa S. McArdell;Adriano Joss;Hansruedi Siegrist

  • Environmental exposure assessment of fluoroquinolone antibacterial agents from sewage to soil.

    Eva M. Golet;Irene Xifra;Hansruedi Siegrist;Alfredo C. Alder

  • Behavior of Metallic Silver Nanoparticles in a Pilot Wastewater Treatment Plant

    Ralf Kaegi;Andreas Voegelin;Brian Sinnet;Steffen Zuleeg

  • Enrichment and characterization of an anammox bacterium from a rotating biological contactor treating ammonium-rich leachate.

    Konrad Egli;Urs Fanger;Pedro J.J. Alvarez;Hansruedi Siegrist

  • A rapid method to measure the solid-water distribution coefficient (Kd) for pharmaceuticals and musk fragrances in sewage sludge.

    Thomas A. Ternes;Nadine Herrmann;Matthias Bonerz;Thomas Knacker

  • Fate of estrogens in a municipal sewage treatment plant.

    Henrik Andersen;Hansruedi Siegrist;Bent Halling-Sørensen;Thomas A. Ternes

  • Removal of Estrogens in Municipal Wastewater Treatment under Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions: Consequences for Plant Optimization

    Adriano Joss;Henrik Rasmus Andersen;Thomas Ternes;Philip R. Richle

  • Mechanisms of N2O production in biological wastewater treatment under nitrifying and denitrifying conditions.

    Pascal Wunderlin;Joachim Mohn;Adriano Joss;Lukas Emmenegger

  • Biological treatment of ammonium-rich wastewater by partial nitritation and subsequent anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in a pilot plant

    Christian Fux;Marc Boehler;Philipp Huber;Irene Brunner

  • Evaluation of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant upgraded with ozonation and biological post-treatments: Abatement of micropollutants, formation of transformation products and oxidation by-products

    Marc Bourgin;Birgit Beck;Marc Boehler;Ewa Borowska

  • Full-scale nitrogen removal from digester liquid with partial nitritation and anammox in one SBR.

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  • Hospital wastewater treatment by membrane bioreactor: performance and efficiency for organic micropollutant elimination.

    Lubomira Kovalova;Hansruedi Siegrist;Heinz Singer;Anita Wittmer

  • Practical identifiability of ASM2d parameters—systematic selection and tuning of parameter subsets

    Roland Brun;Roland Brun;Martin Kühni;Hansruedi Siegrist;Willi Gujer

  • Occurrence and fate of antibiotics as trace contaminants in wastewaters, sewage sludges, and surface waters

    Walter Giger;Alfredo C. Alder;Eva M. Golet;Hans-Peter E. Kohler

  • Mathematical model for meso- and thermophilic anaerobic sewage sludge digestion.

    Hansruedi Siegrist;Dea Vogt;Jaime L Garcia-Heras;Willi Gujer

Frequent Co-Authors

Adriano Joss
Adriano Joss Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Willi Gujer
Willi Gujer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Juliane Hollender
Juliane Hollender Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Christa S. McArdell
Christa S. McArdell Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Urs von Gunten
Urs von Gunten Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Thomas A. Ternes
Thomas A. Ternes Federal Institute of Hydrology
Martin Krauss
Martin Krauss Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Christoph Ort
Christoph Ort Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Heinz Singer
Heinz Singer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Jörg Oehlmann
Jörg Oehlmann Goethe University Frankfurt

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