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Overview

Marijan Ahel is affiliated with the Institut Ruđer Bošković in Croatia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on pollution and analytical chemistry. Their body of work spans several related subfields such as water science and technology, environmental chemistry, and pharmacology.

The main topics addressed in their research include pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, analytical chemistry methods development, and aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics. Additional areas of investigation cover antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy, advanced oxidation water treatment, advanced chemical sensor technologies, and water quality monitoring technologies.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Senka Terzić, Ivan Senta, Iva Mikac, Klaudija Ivanković, and Tvrtko Smital.

Marijan Ahel has contributed to papers published across several scientific venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Journal of environmental chemical engineering
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Talanta

Key recent publications include:

  • "Analysis and occurrence of macrolide residues in stream sediments and underlying alluvial aquifer downstream from a pharmaceutical plant," 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • "Degradation of pharmaceutical memantine by photo-based advanced oxidation processes: Kinetics, pathways and environmental aspects," 2023, Journal of environmental chemical engineering
  • "Assessing the impact of a major electronic music festival on the consumption patterns of illicit and licit psychoactive substances in a Mediterranean city using wastewater analysis," 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Uptake/depuration kinetics, bioaccumulation potential and metabolic transformation of a complex pharmaceutical mixture in zebrafish (Danio rerio)," 2024, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Ecotoxicological profiling of selected cyanobacterial strains using multi-endpoint effect-directed analysis," 2020, Ecotoxicology

Best Publications

  • Behaviour of alkylphenol polyethoxylate surfactants in the aquatic environment—I. Occurrence and transformation in sewage treatment

    Marijan Ahel;Walter Giger;Markus Koch

  • Behaviour of alkylphenol polyethoxylate surfactants in the aquatic environment-II. Occurrence and transformation in rivers

    Marijan Ahel;Walter Giger;Christian Schaffner

  • Bioaccumulation of the lipophilic metabolites of nonionic surfactants in freshwater organisms.

    M. Ahel;J. McEvoy;W. Giger

  • The structure and catalytic mechanism of a poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase.

    Dea Slade;Mark S. Dunstan;Eva Barkauskaite;Ria Weston

  • Partitioning of alkylphenols and alkylphenol polyethoxylates between water and organic solvents

    Marijan Ahel;Walter Giger

  • Determination of alkylphenols and alkylphenol mono- and diethoxylates in environmental samples by high-performance liquid chromatography

    Marijan. Ahel;Walter. Giger

  • Illicit drugs in wastewater of the city of Zagreb (Croatia) - estimation of drug abuse in a transition country.

    Senka Terzic;Ivan Senta;Marijan Ahel

  • Negative environmental impacts of antibiotic-contaminated effluents from pharmaceutical industries.

    Ana Bielen;Ana Šimatović;Josipa Kosić-Vukšić;Ivan Senta

  • Occurrence and fate of emerging wastewater contaminants in Western Balkan Region.

    Senka Terzić;Ivan Senta;Marijan Ahel;Meritxell Gros

  • Integrated procedure for multiresidue analysis of dissolved and particulate drugs in municipal wastewater by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Ivan Senta;Ivona Krizman;Marijan Ahel;Senka Terzic

  • Wastewater-based assessment of regional and temporal consumption patterns of illicit drugs and therapeutic opioids in Croatia

    Ivona Krizman;Ivan Senta;Marijan Ahel;Senka Terzic

  • Determination of nonionic surfactants of the alkylphenol polyethoxylate type by high-performance liquid chromatography

    Marijan. Ahel;Walter. Giger

  • Aqueous solubility of alkylphenols and alkylphenol polyethoxylates

    Marijan Ahel;Walter Giger

  • Persistent organic chemicals in sewage effluents. 3. Determinations of nonylphenoxy carboxylic acids by high-resolution gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and high-performance liquid chromatography.

    Marijan. Ahel;Thomas. Conrad;Walter. Giger

  • European demonstration program on the effect-based and chemical identification and monitoring of organic pollutants in European surface waters

    Zuzana Toušová;Peter Oswald;Jaroslav Slobodník;Luděk Bláha

  • BEHAVIOUR OF ALKYLPHENOL POLYETHOXYLATE SURFACTANTS IN THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT--III . OCCURRENCE AND ELIMINATION OF THEIR PERSISTENT METABOLITES DURING INFILTRATION OF RIVER WATER TO GROUNDWATER

    Marijan Ahel;Christian Schaffner;Walter Giger

  • The Toxin-Antitoxin System DarTG Catalyzes Reversible ADP-Ribosylation of DNA.

    Gytis Jankevicius;Antonio Ariza;Marijan Ahel;Ivan Ahel

  • Occurrence and fate of dissolved and particulate antimicrobials in municipal wastewater treatment

    Ivan Senta;Senka Terzic;Marijan Ahel

  • Photochemical degradation of nonylphenol and nonylphenol polyethoxylates in natural waters

    Marijan Ahel;Frank E. Scully;Jürg Hoigné;Walter Giger

  • Estrogenic metabolites of alkylphenol polyethoxylates in secondary sewage effluents and rivers.

    Marijan Ahel;Eva Molnar;Slavica Ibrić;Walter Giger

  • Behaviour of Alkylphenol Polyethoxylate Surfactants and of Nitrilotriacetate in Sewage Treatment

    W. Giger;M. Ahel;M. Koch;H. U. Laubscher

  • Assessment of toxicological profiles of the municipal wastewater effluents using chemical analyses and bioassays.

    Tvrtko Smital;Senka Terzic;Roko Zaja;Ivan Senta

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Giger
Walter Giger Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Ivan Ahel
Ivan Ahel University of Oxford
Kevin V. Thomas
Kevin V. Thomas University of Queensland
Alenka Malej
Alenka Malej National Institute of Biology
Werner Brack
Werner Brack Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Juliane Hollender
Juliane Hollender Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Martin Krauss
Martin Krauss Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Henner Hollert
Henner Hollert Goethe University Frankfurt
Pim E.G. Leonards
Pim E.G. Leonards Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
David Leys
David Leys University of Manchester

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