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Switzerland
2025

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Citations
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Overview

Thomas A. Ternes is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their main field of research is Environmental Science, with a strong focus on several subfields including Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics relevant to environmental impact and analysis. These include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Water Treatment and Disinfection, Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, Analytical chemistry methods development, and Environmental Chemistry and Analysis.

They have published extensively in journals and venues such as Water Research, Vom Wasser, Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Sciences Europe, and the Journal of Hazardous Materials.

  • Water Analysis: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues, 2021, Analytical Chemistry
  • Trifluoroacetate in Precipitation: Deriving a Benchmark Data Set, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Enhanced in vitro toxicity of plastic leachates after UV irradiation, 2021, Water Research
  • Chemicals associated with biodegradable microplastic drive the toxicity to the freshwater oligochaete Lumbriculus variegatus, 2020, Aquatic Toxicology
  • Micropollutant transformation and taxonomic composition in hybrid MBBR - A comparison of carrier-attached biofilm and suspended sludge, 2021, Water Research

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Thomas A. Ternes include Arne Wick, Georg Dierkes, Peter Schweyen, Kevin S. Jewell, and Christian Dietrich. These collaborations have contributed to a body of work that addresses chemical and biological challenges in aquatic environments.

Best Publications

  • Occurrence of drugs in German sewage treatment plants and rivers

    Thomas A Ternes

  • Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment: agents of subtle change?

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  • Water Analysis: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues

    Susan D. Richardson;Thomas A. Ternes

  • Occurrence of antibiotics in the aquatic environment.

    Roman Hirsch;Thomas Ternes;Klaus Haberer;Karl-Ludwig Kratz

  • Behavior and occurrence of estrogens in municipal sewage treatment plants--I. Investigations in Germany, Canada and Brazil.

    T.A Ternes;M Stumpf;J Mueller;K Haberer

  • Behavior of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and hormones in a sewage treatment plant

    Marta Carballa;Francisco Omil;Juan M Lema;Marı́a Llompart

  • Removal of pharmaceuticals during drinking water treatment.

    Thomas A Ternes;Martin Meisenheimer;Derek McDowell;Frank Sacher

  • Ozonation: a tool for removal of pharmaceuticals, contrast media and musk fragrances from wastewater?

    Thomas A Ternes;Jeannette Stüber;Nadine Herrmann;Derek McDowell

  • Biological degradation of pharmaceuticals in municipal wastewater treatment: proposing a classification scheme.

    Adriano Joss;Sebastian Zabczynski;Anke Göbel;Burkhard Hoffmann

  • Scrutinizing pharmaceuticals and personal care products in wastewater treatment.

    Thomas A. Ternes;Adriano Joss;Hansruedi Siegrist

  • Oxidation of pharmaceuticals during ozonation of municipal wastewater effluents: a pilot study.

    Marc M. Huber;Anke Göbel;Adriano Joss;Nadine Hermann

  • Removal of pharmaceuticals and fragrances in biological wastewater treatment.

    Adriano Joss;Elvira Keller;Alfredo C. Alder;Anke Göbel

  • Polar drug residues in sewage and natural waters in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Marcus Stumpf;Thomas A Ternes;Rolf-Dieter Wilken;Silvana Vianna Rodrigues

  • A rapid method to measure the solid-water distribution coefficient (Kd) for pharmaceuticals and musk fragrances in sewage sludge.

    Thomas A. Ternes;Nadine Herrmann;Matthias Bonerz;Thomas Knacker

  • Fate of estrogens in a municipal sewage treatment plant.

    Henrik Andersen;Hansruedi Siegrist;Bent Halling-Sørensen;Thomas A. Ternes

  • Environmental Fate of Pharmaceuticals in Water/Sediment Systems

    Dirk Löffler;Jörg Römbke;Michael Meller;Thomas A. Ternes

  • Analytical methods for the determination of pharmaceuticals in aqueous environmental samples

    Thomas A Ternes

  • Removal of Estrogens in Municipal Wastewater Treatment under Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions: Consequences for Plant Optimization

    Adriano Joss;Henrik Rasmus Andersen;Thomas Ternes;Philip R. Richle

  • Occurrence of neutral and acidic drugs in the effluents of Canadian sewage treatment plants.

    Chris D. Metcalfe;Brenda G. Koenig;Don T. Bennie;Mark Servos

  • Distribution of estrogens, 17β-estradiol and estrone, in Canadian municipal wastewater treatment plants

    M.R. Servos;M.R. Servos;D.T. Bennie;B.K. Burnison;A. Jurkovic

  • Occurrence and behavior of X-ray contrast media in sewage facilities and the aquatic environment

    Thomas A. Ternes;Roman Hirsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Adriano Joss
Adriano Joss Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Jörg Oehlmann
Jörg Oehlmann Goethe University Frankfurt
Hansruedi Siegrist
Hansruedi Siegrist Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Alfredo C. Alder
Alfredo C. Alder Nankai University
Susan D. Richardson
Susan D. Richardson University of South Carolina
Jörg E. Drewes
Jörg E. Drewes Technical University of Munich
Manfred Wagner
Manfred Wagner Max Planck Society
Urs von Gunten
Urs von Gunten Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Michael Jacob Plewa
Michael Jacob Plewa University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marta Carballa
Marta Carballa University of Santiago de Compostela

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