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Overview

Harald Horn is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and focuses research efforts primarily in the fields of environmental science and engineering. Their work spans across various subfields, including pollution, biomedical engineering, water science and technology, environmental engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to water and environmental technologies. These include membrane separation technologies, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, membrane-based ion separation techniques, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, and bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing.

Frequent publication venues for their work demonstrate a focus on journals that address environmental and water research topics. Notable venues include Separation and Purification Technology, Water Research, Membranes, The Science of The Total Environment, and Water.

Recent published papers highlight the scientist's contributions to wastewater treatment and environmental monitoring. These include:

  • MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • Changes in the characteristics of dissolved organic matter during sludge treatment: A critical review (2020, Water Research)
  • The potential of fluorescent dyes-comparative study of Nile red and three derivatives for the detection of microplastics (2021, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry)
  • Ferrate pretreatment-anaerobic fermentation enhances medium-chain fatty acids production from waste activated sludge: Performance and mechanisms (2022, Water Research)

Harald Horn collaborates regularly with a set of frequent coauthors, including Florencia Saravia, Michael Wagner, Johannes Gescher, Andrea Hille-Reichel, and Max Hackbarth, reflecting a consistent network of research partnerships in related domains.

Best Publications

  • Full-scale partial nitritation/anammox experiences--an application survey

    Susanne Lackner;Eva M. Gilbert;Siegfried E. Vlaeminck;Adriano Joss

  • Opportunities in rainwater harvesting

    B. Helmreich;H. Horn

  • Low Temperature Partial Nitritation/Anammox in a Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor treating low strength Wastewater

    Eva Gilbert;Shelesh Agrawal;Søren Michael Karst;Harald Horn

  • Determination of microplastic polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) in environmental samples using thermal analysis (TGA-DSC)

    Marius Majewsky;Hajo Bitter;Elisabeth Eiche;Harald Horn

  • Extracellular polymeric substances of biofilms: Suffering from an identity crisis

    Thomas Seviour;Nicolas Derlon;Morten Simonsen Dueholm;Hans-Curt Flemming

  • Runoff pollutants of a highly trafficked urban road ― Correlation analysis and seasonal influences

    Brigitte Helmreich;Rita Hilliges;Alexander Schriewer;Harald Horn

  • Modelling the energy balance of an anaerobic digester fed with cattle manure and renewable energy crops.

    Manfred Lübken;Marc Wichern;Markus Schlattmann;Andreas Gronauer

  • Aerobic biodegradation of the sulfonamide antibiotic sulfamethoxazole by activated sludge applied as co-substrate and sole carbon and nitrogen source.

    Elisabeth Müller;Walter Schüssler;Harald Horn;Hilde Lemmer

  • Anaerobic submerged membrane bioreactor (AnSMBR) for municipal wastewater treatment under mesophilic and psychrophilic temperature conditions

    David Martinez-Sosa;Brigitte Helmreich;Thomas Netter;Stefania Paris

  • Comparing different reactor configurations for Partial Nitritation/Anammox at low temperatures.

    Eva M. Gilbert;Shelesh Agrawal;Thomas Schwartz;Harald Horn

  • Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Anne Bogler;Aaron Packman;Alex Furman;Amit Gross

  • Volumetric measurements of bacterial cells and extracellular polymeric substance glycoconjugates in biofilms

    C. Staudt;H. Horn;D. C Hempel;T. R. Neu

  • Simulation of growth and detachment in biofilm systems under defined hydrodynamic conditions

    Harald Horn;Helmut Reiff;Eberhard Morgenroth

  • Combined use of confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and Raman microscopy (RM): Investigations on EPS – Matrix

    Michael Wagner;Natalia P. Ivleva;Christoph Haisch;Reinhard Niessner

  • Heavy metal removal in anaerobic semi-continuous stirred tank reactors by a consortium of sulfate-reducing bacteria.

    Hoa T.Q. Kieu;Elizabeth Müller;Harald Horn

  • Biogas from grass silage – Measurements and modeling with ADM1

    Konrad Koch;Manfred Lübken;Tito Gehring;Marc Wichern

  • Screening and monitoring microbial xenobiotics’ biodegradation via rapid, inexpensive and easy to perform microplate

    B. Herzog;H. Lemmer;B. Helmreich;H. Horn

  • Influence of growth conditions on biofilm development and mass transfer at the bulk/biofilm interface.

    Stefan Wäsche;Harald Horn;Dietmar C Hempel

  • Aerobic sludge granulation in a full-scale sequencing batch reactor.

    Jun Li;Li-Bin Ding;Ang Cai;Guo-Xian Huang

  • Towards a nondestructive chemical characterization of biofilm matrix by Raman microscopy

    Natalia P. Ivleva;Michael Wagner;Harald Horn;Reinhard Niessner

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner TU Dresden
Thomas R. Neu
Thomas R. Neu Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Konrad Koch
Konrad Koch Technical University of Munich
Thomas Kolb
Thomas Kolb Northern Arizona University
Dimosthenis Trimis
Dimosthenis Trimis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Eberhard Morgenroth
Eberhard Morgenroth Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Thomas Schwartz
Thomas Schwartz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christoph Haisch
Christoph Haisch Technical University of Munich
Fritz H. Frimmel
Fritz H. Frimmel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Cristian Picioreanu
Cristian Picioreanu King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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