Material characterization and environmental assessment

Motivation – understanding the environmental behavior of waste and secondary resources requires analytical approaches tailored to complex matrices, with a focus on assessing contaminant leaching and mobility into the surrounding environment to enable safe and informed treatment, recovery, and reuse.

Focused on:

• Development of analytical approaches for complex and heterogeneous waste matrices,
• Assessment of contaminant leaching, mobility, and long-term release into the surrounding environment,
• Inorganic material analysis (ICP-OES, XRF, ICP-MS),
• Chemical speciation analysis of environmentally relevant compounds,
• Environmental analysis of soils, waters, and leachates,
• Material flow analysis.