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Overview

Walter Giger is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with emphasis on industrial and manufacturing engineering, health, toxicology, mutagenesis, environmental chemistry, and pollution.

Their work covers a range of topics including environmental chemistry and analysis, water quality monitoring and analysis, water treatment and disinfection, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, and wastewater treatment and reuse.

Giger has contributed to scientific literature with papers such as:

  • Synthetic surfactants in Swiss sewage sludges: Analytical challenges, concentrations and per capita loads (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Suspect and Nontarget Screening of Organic Micropollutants in Swiss Sewage Sludge: A Nationwide Survey (2025, Environmental Science & Technology)

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Lena Schinkel
  • Pablo A. Lara-Martín
  • Juliane Hollender
  • Michael Berg
  • Yves Eberhard

Their articles have appeared in notable venues such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Arsenic contamination of groundwater and drinking water in Vietnam: a human health threat.

    Michael Berg;Hong Con Tran;Thi Chuyen Nguyen;Hung Viet Pham

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

    Marijan Ahel;Walter Giger;Markus Koch

  • 4-Nonylphenol in sewage sludge: accumulation of toxic metabolites from nonionic surfactants.

    Walter Giger;Paul H. Brunner;Christian Schaffner

  • Fate of sulfonamides, macrolides, and trimethoprim in different wastewater treatment technologies

    Anke Göbel;Christa S. McArdell;Adriano Joss;Hansruedi Siegrist

  • Environmental exposure assessment of fluoroquinolone antibacterial agents from sewage to soil.

    Eva M. Golet;Irene Xifra;Hansruedi Siegrist;Alfredo C. Alder

  • Occurrence and sorption behavior of sulfonamides, macrolides, and trimethoprim in activated sludge treatment.

    Anke Göbel;Angela Thomsen;Christa S. McArdell;and Adriano Joss

  • Poly cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Recent lake sediments—II. Compounds derived from biogenic precursors during early diagenesis

    Stuart G. Wakeham;Christian Schaffner;Walter Giger

  • Environmental exposure and risk assessment of fluoroquinolone antibacterial agents in wastewater and River water of the Glatt Valley Watershed, Switzerland

    Eva M. Golet;and Alfredo C. Alder;Walter Giger

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

    Marijan Ahel;Walter Giger;Christian Schaffner

  • Occurrence and Fate of Macrolide Antibiotics in Wastewater Treatment Plants and in the Glatt Valley Watershed, Switzerland

    Christa S McArdell;Eva Molnar;Marc J F Suter;Walter Giger

  • Trace Determination of Fluoroquinolone Antibacterial Agents in Urban Wastewater by Solid-Phase Extraction and Liquid Chromatography with Fluorescence Detection

    Eva M. Golet;Alfredo C. Alder;Andreas Hartmann;Thomas A. Ternes

  • Determination of Fluoroquinolone Antibacterial Agents in Sewage Sludge and Sludge-Treated Soil Using Accelerated Solvent Extraction Followed by Solid-Phase Extraction

    Eva M. Golet;Adrian Strehler;and Alfredo C. Alder;Walter Giger

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

    M. Ahel;J. McEvoy;W. Giger

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Recent lake sediments—I. Compounds having anthropogenic origins

    Stuart G. Wakeham;Christian Schaffner;Walter Giger

  • Anaerobic Degradation of Decabromodiphenyl Ether

    Andreas C Gerecke;Paul C Hartmann;Norbert V Heeb;Hans-Peter E Kohler

  • Occurrence and fate of antibiotics as trace contaminants in wastewaters, sewage sludges, and surface waters

    Walter Giger;Alfredo C. Alder;Eva M. Golet;Hans-Peter E. Kohler

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

    Marijan Ahel;Walter Giger

  • Trace determination of macrolide and sulfonamide antimicrobials, a human sulfonamide metabolite, and trimethoprim in wastewater using liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray tandem mass spectrometry.

    Anke Göbel;Christa S. Mcardell;Marc J.-F. Suter;Walter Giger

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

    Marijan. Ahel;Walter. Giger

  • Benzotriazole and Tolyltriazole as Aquatic Contaminants. 1. Input and Occurrence in Rivers and Lakes

    Walter Giger;Christian Schaffner;Hans-Peter E. Kohler

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Peter E. Kohler
Hans-Peter E. Kohler Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Alfredo C. Alder
Alfredo C. Alder Nankai University
Marijan Ahel
Marijan Ahel Institut Ruđer Bošković
Michael Berg
Michael Berg Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Christa S. McArdell
Christa S. McArdell Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Jennifer A. Field
Jennifer A. Field Oregon State University
Antonio Marcomini
Antonio Marcomini Ca Foscari University of Venice
Willi Gujer
Willi Gujer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Hansruedi Siegrist
Hansruedi Siegrist Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Pham Hung Viet
Pham Hung Viet Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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