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Heinz Singer is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications related to pollution, analytical chemistry, health toxicology, environmental engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work covers various specialized topics, including:

  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Analytical chemistry methods development
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications

Heinz Singer has published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • "The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry" (2022) in Environmental Sciences Europe
  • "Stream microbial communities and ecosystem functioning show complex responses to multiple stressors in wastewater" (2020) in Global Change Biology
  • "Identification of LC-HRMS nontarget signals in groundwater after source related prioritization" (2021) in Water Research
  • "Assessing Emissions from Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Based on Temporal High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data" (2020) in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Paradise lost? Pesticide pollution in a European region with considerable amount of traditional agriculture" (2020) in Water Research

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Juliane Hollender
  • Karin Kiefer
  • Christoph Ort
  • Kathrin Fenner
  • Michelle Salvisberg

Heinz Singer frequently publishes in a number of scientific journals and venues, such as:

  • Water Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Water Research X
  • Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Best Publications

  • Identifying Small Molecules via High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Communicating Confidence

    Emma L. Schymanski;Junho Jeon;Rebekka Gulde;Kathrin Fenner

  • Occurrence and Fate of Carbamazepine, Clofibric Acid, Diclofenac, Ibuprofen, Ketoprofen, and Naproxen in Surface Waters

    Céline Tixier;Heinz P Singer;Sjef Oellers;Stephan R Müller

  • Triclosan: Occurrence and fate of a widely used biocide in the aquatic environment: Field measurements in wastewater treatment plants, surface waters, and lake sediments

    Heinz Singer;Stephan Nicholas Müller;Céline Tixier;Laurent Pillonel

  • 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

  • LC-high resolution MS in environmental analysis: from target screening to the identification of unknowns

    Martin Krauss;Heinz Singer;Juliane Hollender

  • Non-target screening with high-resolution mass spectrometry: critical review using a collaborative trial on water analysis

    Emma L. Schymanski;Heinz P. Singer;Jaroslav Slobodnik;Ildiko M. Ipolyi

  • Nontarget Screening with High Resolution Mass Spectrometry in the Environment: Ready to Go?

    Juliane Hollender;Juliane Hollender;Emma Louise Schymanski;Heinz Singer;P. Lee Ferguson

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

    Lubomira Kovalova;Hansruedi Siegrist;Heinz Singer;Anita Wittmer

  • Simultaneous quantification of neutral and acidic pharmaceuticals and pesticides at the low-ng/l level in surface and waste water

    Sjef Öllers;Heinz P. Singer;Philipp Fässler;Stephan R. Müller

  • Wastewater treatment plant resistomes are shaped by bacterial composition, genetic exchange, and upregulated expression in the effluent microbiomes

    Feng Ju;Karin Beck;Xiaole Yin;Andreas Maccagnan

  • Strategies to Characterize Polar Organic Contamination in Wastewater: Exploring the Capability of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry

    Emma L. Schymanski;Heinz P. Singer;Philipp Longrée;Martin Loos;Martin Loos

  • How a Complete Pesticide Screening Changes the Assessment of Surface Water Quality

    Christoph Moschet;Irene Wittmer;Jelena Simovic;Marion Junghans

  • Identification of transformation products of organic contaminants in natural waters by computer-aided prediction and high-resolution mass spectrometry.

    Susanne Kern;Kathrin Fenner;Heinz P. Singer;René P. Schwarzenbach

  • Phototransformation of Triclosan in Surface Waters: A Relevant Elimination Process for This Widely Used BiocideLaboratory Studies, Field Measurements, and Modeling

    Céline Tixier;Heinz P. Singer;Silvio Canonica;Stephan R. Müller

  • High-throughput identification of microbial transformation products of organic micropollutants.

    Damian E. Helbling;Juliane Hollender;Hans-Peter E. Kohler;Heinz Singer

  • Significance of urban and agricultural land use for biocide and pesticide dynamics in surface waters

    I.K. Wittmer;H.-P. Bader;R. Scheidegger;H. Singer

  • Quantitative target and systematic non-target analysis of polar organic micro-pollutants along the river Rhine using high-resolution mass-spectrometry – identification of unknown sources and compounds

    Matthias Ruff;Miriam S. Mueller;Martin Loos;Heinz P. Singer

  • Multiresidue analysis of 88 polar organic micropollutants in ground, surface and wastewater using online mixed-bed multilayer solid-phase extraction coupled to high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Sebastian Huntscha;Heinz P. Singer;Christa S. McArdell;Carolin E. Frank

  • Sources of pesticides in surface waters in Switzerland: pesticide load through waste water treatment plants--current situation and reduction potential.

    Andreas C. Gerecke;Michael Schärer;Heinz P. Singer;Stephan R. Müller

  • Fully automated online solid phase extraction coupled directly to liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Quantification of sulfonamide antibiotics, neutral and acidic pesticides at low concentrations in surface waters.

    Krispin Stoob;Heinz P. Singer;Christian W. Goetz;Matthias Ruff

Frequent Co-Authors

Juliane Hollender
Juliane Hollender Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Christian Stamm
Christian Stamm Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Kathrin Fenner
Kathrin Fenner Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Christa S. McArdell
Christa S. McArdell Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Martin Krauss
Martin Krauss Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Christoph Ort
Christoph Ort Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Urs von Gunten
Urs von Gunten Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Hansruedi Siegrist
Hansruedi Siegrist Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Beate I. Escher
Beate I. Escher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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