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Environmental Sciences
Singapore
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
70
Citations
16971
World Ranking
1689
National Ranking
3

Microbiology

D-Index
67
Citations
15591
World Ranking
2276
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Stefan Wuertz is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and focuses on research intersecting medicine and environmental science. Their work predominantly revolves around infectious diseases, particularly aspects of SARS-CoV-2 detection and COVID-19 research.

Their primary fields of study include Medicine and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Biomedical Engineering, Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Stefan Wuertz has published extensively on topics like SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, and the broader spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research. Other notable research topics encompass biosensors and analytical detection, COVID-19 clinical research studies, water treatment and disinfection, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, and advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • ACS ES&T Water

Some recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Stefan Wuertz are:

  • SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 across 40 U.S. states from February to June 2020, 2021, Water Research
  • SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Making waves: Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in an endemic future, 2022, Water Research

Stefan Wuertz collaborates frequently with researchers such as Janelle R. Thompson, Xiaoqiong Gu, Wei Lin Lee, Eric J. Alm, and Federica Armas.

Best Publications

  • Bacteria and archaea on Earth and their abundance in biofilms

    Hans-Curt Flemming;Stefan Wuertz;Stefan Wuertz

  • The biofilm matrix: multitasking in a shared space

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  • Studying plasmid horizontal transfer in situ : a critical review

    Søren J. Sørensen;Mark Bailey;Lars H. Hansen;Niels Kroer

  • High Rates of Conjugation in Bacterial Biofilms as Determined by Quantitative In Situ Analysis

    Martina Hausner;Stefan Wuertz

  • 16S rRNA-based assays for quantitative detection of universal, human-, cow-, and dog-specific fecal Bacteroidales: A Bayesian approach

    Beverly J. Kildare;Christian M. Leutenegger;Belinda S. McSwain;Dustin G. Bambic

  • Nitrifying and heterotrophic population dynamics in biofilm reactors: effects of hydraulic retention time and the presence of organic carbon

    Regina Nogueira;Luı́s F Melo;Ulrike Purkhold;Stefan Wuertz

  • Review of highway runoff characteristics: comparative analysis and universal implications.

    Masoud Kayhanian;Boaz D. Fruchtman;John S. Gulliver;Comasia Montanaro

  • Genomic analysis of sewage from 101 countries reveals global landscape of antimicrobial resistance

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  • Discrimination of Viable and Dead Fecal Bacteroidales Bacteria by Quantitative PCR with Propidium Monoazide

    Sungwoo Bae;Stefan Wuertz

  • Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance

    Warish Ahmed;Stuart L. Simpson;Paul M. Bertsch;Kyle Bibby

  • Quo vadis source tracking? Towards a strategic framework for environmental monitoring of fecal pollution.

    Jorge W. Santo Domingo;Dustin G. Bambic;Thomas A. Edge;Stefan Wuertz

  • Automated Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy and Semiautomated Image Processing for Analysis of Biofilms

    Martin Kuehn;Martina Hausner;Hans-Joachim Bungartz;Michael Wagner

  • SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases.

    Fuqing Wu;Amy Xiao;Jianbo Zhang;Katya Moniz

  • Sorption Properties of Biofilms

    R. Späth;H.-C. Flemming;S. Wuertz

  • Effect of flow regime on the architecture of a Pseudomonas fluorescens biofilm

    Maria Olivia Pereira;Martin Kuehn;Stefan Wuertz;Thomas Neu

  • Validation of hollow fiber ultrafiltration and real-time PCR using bacteriophage PP7 as surrogate for the quantification of viruses from water samples

    Veronica B Rajal;Belinda S McSwain;Donald E Thompson;Christian M Leutenegger

  • Discharge-based QMRA for estimation of public health risks from exposure to stormwater-borne pathogens in recreational waters in the United States

    Graham B. McBride;Rebecca Stott;Woutrina Miller;Dustin Bambic

  • Rapid decay of host-specific fecal Bacteroidales cells in seawater as measured by quantitative PCR with propidium monoazide.

    Sungwoo Bae;Stefan Wuertz

  • Making waves: Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 for population-based health management.

    Janelle R Thompson;Yarlagadda Nancharaiah;Xiaoqiong Gu;Wei Lin Lee

  • Polyphosphate-accumulating organisms in full-scale tropical wastewater treatment plants use diverse carbon sources.

    Guanglei Qiu;Rogelio Zuniga-Montanez;Yingyu Law;Sara Swa Thi

  • Plasmids for heavy metal resistance in Alcaligenes eutrophus CH34: Mechanisms and applications

    J.M. Collard;P. Corbisier;L. Diels;Q. Dong

  • Toxic effects of tin compounds on microorganisms

    Joseph J. Cooney;Stefan Wuertz

  • Microbial communities and their interactions in biofilm systems: an overview.

    S. Wuertz;S. Okabe;M. Hausner

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Wilderer
Peter A. Wilderer Technical University of Munich
Per Halkjær Nielsen
Per Halkjær Nielsen Aalborg University
Guanglei Qiu
Guanglei Qiu South China University of Technology
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner University of Vienna
Staffan Kjelleberg
Staffan Kjelleberg Nanyang Technological University
Luís F. Melo
Luís F. Melo University of Porto
Orin C. Shanks
Orin C. Shanks Environmental Protection Agency
Guillermo C. Bazan
Guillermo C. Bazan National University of Singapore

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