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Overview

Klaus Kümmerer is affiliated with Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans across several key subfields including Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's research encompasses a variety of main topics such as Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Environmental Chemistry and Analysis, and Sustainable Industrial Ecology.

Kümmerer has published extensively in well-recognized scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Chemosphere
  • Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
  • Green Chemistry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Some notable recent publications showcasing their research contributions are:

  • "Rethinking chemistry for a circular economy", 2020, Science
  • "Education in green chemistry and in sustainable chemistry: perspectives towards sustainability", 2021, Green Chemistry
  • "Temporal dynamics and ecotoxicological risk assessment of personal care products, phthalate ester plasticizers, and organophosphorus flame retardants in water from Lake Victoria, Uganda", 2020, Chemosphere
  • "One planet: one health. A call to support the initiative on a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste", 2022, Environmental Sciences Europe
  • "The contribution of material circularity to sustainability-Recycling and reuse of textiles", 2021, Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry

Klaus Kümmerer frequently collaborates with other researchers. Some of the most frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Oliver Olsson
  • Neele Puhlmann
  • Marco Reich
  • Vânia Gomes Zuin
  • Christina Apel

Best Publications

  • Antibiotics in the aquatic environment - A review - Part II

    Klaus Kümmerer

  • The presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment due to human use--present knowledge and future challenges.

    Klaus Kümmerer

  • Drugs in the environment: emission of drugs, diagnostic aids and disinfectants into wastewater by hospitals in relation to other sources--a review.

    Klaus Kümmerer

  • Resistance in the environment

    Klaus Kümmerer

  • Antibiotics in the aquatic environment--a review--part II.

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  • Pharmaceuticals in the environment : sources, fate, effects and risks

    Klaus Kümmerer

  • Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

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  • Significance of antibiotics in the environment

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  • Biodegradability of some antibiotics, elimination of the genotoxicity and affection of wastewater bacteria in a simple test.

    Klaus Kümmerer;Ali Al-Ahmad;Volker Mersch-Sundermann

  • Promoting resistance by the emission of antibiotics from hospitals and households into effluent.

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  • Biodegradability of cefotiam, ciprofloxacin, meropenem, penicillin G, and sulfamethoxazole and inhibition of waste water bacteria

    A. Al-Ahmad;F. D. Daschner;Klaus Kümmerer

  • Assessment of degradation of 18 antibiotics in the Closed Bottle Test.

    Radka Alexy;Tina Kümpel;Klaus Kümmerer

  • Transformation products of pharmaceuticals in surface waters and wastewater formed during photolysis and advanced oxidation processes - degradation, elucidation of byproducts and assessment of their biological potency.

    Despo Fatta-Kassinos;Marlen Vasquez;Klaus Kümmerer

  • Environmental chemistry of organosiloxanes.

    Christoph Rücker;Klaus Kümmerer

  • Environmental side effects of pharmaceutical cocktails: what we know and what we should know.

    M. I. Vasquez;A. Lambrianides;Mandy Schneider;Klaus Kümmerer

  • Biodegradability of the anti-tumour agent ifosfamide and its occurrence in hospital effluents and communal sewage

    Klaus Kümmerer;Thomas Steger-Hartmann;Michael Meyer

  • Do cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs discharged into rivers pose a risk to the environment and human health? An overview and UK case study

    Andrew C. Johnson;Monika D. Jürgens;Richard J. Williams;Klaus Kümmerer

  • Hospital effluents as a source of gadolinium in the aquatic environment

    Klaus Kümmerer;Eckard Helmers

  • Sustainable from the very beginning: rational design of molecules by life cycle engineering as an important approach for green pharmacy and green chemistry

    Klaus Kümmerer

  • Education in green chemistry and in sustainable chemistry: perspectives towards sustainability

    Vânia G. Zuin;Vânia G. Zuin;Vânia G. Zuin;Ingo Eilks;Myriam Elschami;Klaus Kümmerer

  • In silico toxicology protocols.

    Glenn J. Myatt;Ernst Ahlberg;Yumi Akahori;David Allen

  • Photo-degradation of the antimicrobial ciprofloxacin at high pH: identification and biodegradability assessment of the primary by-products.

    Tibiriçá G. Vasconcelos;Danielle M. Henriques;Armin König;Ayrton F. Martins

  • Trace analysis of the antineoplastics ifosfamide and cyclophosphamide in sewage water by twostep solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

    Thomas Steger-Hartmann;Klaus Kümmerer;Jörn Schecker

  • Long-term release of monomers from modern dental-composite materials

    Olga Polydorou;Armin König;Elmar Hellwig;Klaus Kümmerer

  • Incomplete aerobic degradation of the antidiabetic drug Metformin and identification of the bacterial dead-end transformation product Guanylurea

    Christoph Trautwein;Klaus Kümmerer

Frequent Co-Authors

Despo Fatta-Kassinos
Despo Fatta-Kassinos University of Cyprus
Dionysios D. Dionysiou
Dionysios D. Dionysiou University of Cincinnati
Daniel J. Lang
Daniel J. Lang Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Manfred Jung
Manfred Jung University of Freiburg
Markus Weiler
Markus Weiler University of Freiburg
Reto Gieré
Reto Gieré University of Pennsylvania
Christian Stamm
Christian Stamm Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Henrik Kylin
Henrik Kylin Linköping University
Gwenaël Imfeld
Gwenaël Imfeld University of Strasbourg
Zhimin Liu
Zhimin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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