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Peter Grathwohl is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research covers several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The main topics in Grathwohl's work focus on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

Grathwohl has contributed to multiple research articles published across well-known scientific journals. Some notable recent papers include:

  • Long-term behavior of PFAS in contaminated agricultural soils in Germany, 2021, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
  • Anaerobic Neutrophilic Pyrite Oxidation by a Chemolithoautotrophic Nitrate-Reducing Iron(II)-Oxidizing Culture Enriched from a Fractured Aquifer, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nitrate Removal by a Novel Lithoautotrophic Nitrate-Reducing, Iron(II)-Oxidizing Culture Enriched from a Pyrite-Rich Limestone Aquifer, 2021, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Production of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) from precursors in contaminated agricultural soils: Batch and leaching experiments, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Fate of nitrate during groundwater recharge in a fractured karst aquifer in Southwest Germany, 2021, Hydrogeology Journal

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Grathwohl include:

  • Michael Finkel
  • Binlong Liu
  • Andreas Kappler
  • Karsten Osenbrück
  • Hermann Rügner

Peter Grathwohl commonly publishes in the following journals:

  • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Hydrogeology Journal

Best Publications

  • Diffusion in Natural Porous Media: Contaminant Transport, Sorption/Desorption and Dissolution Kinetics

    Peter Grathwohl

  • Influence of organic matter from soils and sediments from various origins on the sorption of some chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons: implications on KOC correlations.

    Peter Grathwohl

  • New modeling paradigms for the sorption of hydrophobic organic chemicals to heterogeneous carbonaceous matter in soils, sediments, and rocks

    Richelle M. Allen-King;Peter Grathwohl;William P. Ball

  • Tracer diffusion coefficients in sedimentary rocks: correlation to porosity and hydraulic conductivity.

    Thomas B Boving;Peter Grathwohl

  • Solubility-Normalized Combined Adsorption-Partitioning Sorption Isotherms for Organic Pollutants

    Sybille Kleineidam;Christoph Schüth;Peter Grathwohl

  • Organic Matter Facies and Equilibrium Sorption of Phenanthrene

    Sybille Kleineidam;Hermann Rügner;Bertrand Ligouis;Peter Grathwohl

  • Impacts of heterogeneous organic matter on phenanthrene sorption: equilibrium and kinetic studies with aquifer material.

    Hrissi K. Karapanagioti;Sybille Kleineidam;David A. Sabatini;Peter Grathwohl

  • Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

    Dirk Schulze-Makuch;Dirk Schulze-Makuch;Dirk Wagner;Samuel P Kounaves;Samuel P Kounaves;Kai Mangelsdorf

  • Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity. The GLOBAQUA project

    Alícia Navarro-Ortega;Vicenç Acuña;Alberto Bellin;Peter Burek

  • Desorption of trichloroethylene in aquifer material : rate limitation at the grain scale

    Peter Grathwohl;Martin Reinhard

  • Enhancement of dilution and transverse reactive mixing in porous media: experiments and model-based interpretation.

    Massimo Rolle;Christina Eberhardt;Gabriele Chiogna;Olaf A. Cirpka

  • Turbidity as a proxy for total suspended solids (TSS) and particle facilitated pollutant transport in catchments

    Hermann Rügner;Marc Schwientek;Barbara Beckingham;Bertram Kuch

  • Enhanced mixing and reaction through flow focusing in heterogeneous porous media

    Charles J. Werth;Olaf A. Cirpka;Peter Grathwohl

  • Time scales of organic contaminant dissolution from complex source zones: coal tar pools vs. blobs.

    Christina Eberhardt;Peter Grathwohl

  • Transverse vertical dispersion in groundwater and the capillary fringe.

    I.D Klenk;P Grathwohl

  • A combined experimental and modeling study to evaluate pH-dependent sorption of polar and non-polar compounds to polyethylene and polystyrene microplastics.

    Sven Seidensticker;Peter Grathwohl;Jonas Lamprecht;Christiane Zarfl

  • Long Term Sorption Kinetics of Phenanthrene in Aquifer Materials

    Hermann RÜgner;Sybille Kleineidam;Peter Grathwohl

  • Comparison of percolation to batch and sequential leaching tests: Theory and data

    Peter Grathwohl;Bernd Susset

  • Quantification of mass fluxes and natural attenuation rates at an industrial site with a limited monitoring network: a case study

    Alexander Bockelmann;Daniela Zamfirescu;Thomas Ptak;Peter Grathwohl

  • Shift in Mass Transfer of Wastewater Contaminants from Microplastics in the Presence of Dissolved Substances

    Sven Seidensticker;Christiane Zarfl;Olaf Arie Cirpka;Greta Fellenberg

  • New modeling paradigms for the sorption of hydrophobic organic chemicals to heterogeneous carbonaceous matter in soils, sediments, and rocks.

    R. M. Allen-King;P. Grathwohl;W. P. Ball;C. T. Miller

  • Comparison of Sedimentary PAHs in the Rivers of Ammer (Germany) and Liangtan (China): Differences between Early- and Newly-Industrialized Countries

    Ying Liu;Barbara Beckingham;Hermann Ruegner;Zhe Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimo Rolle
Massimo Rolle Technical University of Darmstadt
Olaf A. Cirpka
Olaf A. Cirpka University of Tübingen
Philipp Blum
Philipp Blum Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Johannes A. C. Barth
Johannes A. C. Barth University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Georg Teutsch
Georg Teutsch Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stefan B. Haderlein
Stefan B. Haderlein University of Tübingen
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Olaf Kolditz
Olaf Kolditz TU Dresden
Rudolf Liedl
Rudolf Liedl TU Dresden
Christian Griebler
Christian Griebler University of Vienna

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