Lutz Ahrens
Professor, Avdelningen för organisk miljökemi och ekotoxikologi
Min forskning är inom miljö- och analytisk kemi, med särskilt fokus på per- och polyfluorerade alkylsubstanser (PFAS), samt identifiering av nya farliga kemikalier med hjälp av avancerade massspektrometriska metoder för att stödja miljömässiga tidiga varningssystem.
Presentation
Jag är professor i miljöorganisk kemi vid Institutionen för vatten och miljö, SLU. Min forskning fokuserar på utveckling av avancerade analytiska metoder för att identifiera nya organiska föroreningar – särskilt PFAS – i miljöprover. Genom att använda toppmodern massspektrometri, inklusive LC-MS/MS och LC-Orbitrap-MS, undersöker jag föroreningarnas källor, transportvägar, öde och saneringsmöjligheter för att bidra till förbättrad miljöövervakning och förvaltning.
Forskning
Min forskningsverksamhet fokuserar på:
- Undersökning av källor, transportmekanismer och miljömässigt öde för nya organiska föroreningar, särskilt per- och polyfluorerade alkylsubstanser (PFAS)
- Utveckling av avancerade saneringstekniker för förorenade jord- och vattensystem
- Design och validering av analytiska och bioanalytiska strategier för identifiering av nya kemiska föroreningar i miljöprover
- Identifiering av farliga kemikalier i miljön genom integrerade metoder för toxicitetstestning och högupplösande masspektrometri, som stöd för tidiga varningssystem
Aktuella EU projekt
- PARC: Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (EU Horizon-HLTH-2021-ENVHLTH-03-01) (co-applicant, Task Leader on Early Warning Systems)
- LIFE SOuRCE: Demonstration and evaluation of Sustainable On-site Remediation technologies for PFAS-ContaminatEd groundwater (co-applicant, WP leader)
- LIFE CAPTURE: Combining novel analytical protocols for PFAS contamination with technologies for sustainable remediation (co-applicant, WP co-leader)
Aktuella nationalla projekt
- SIDWater: Sustainable innovative drinking water treatment solutions for large-scale water supply and reuse, Formas (PI Lutz Ahrens)
- PFASMAR: Artificial groundwater recharge – A shortcut for harmful poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) into groundwater systems and drinking water supplies – Can we avoid this? Formas (PI Philipp Wanner, GU)
- Novel methods and strategies to ensure safe drinking water, Formas (PI Johan Lundqvist, SLU)
- DRICKS: Competence centre for drinking water - Projects about Sources, prevalence, and treatment of hazardous chemicals in drinking water, Svenskt Vatten and others
- Remediation of PFAS-contaminated soil using air sparging, SGU and SGI (PI Lutz Ahrens)
- BioPFAS: Microbial degradation of PFAS for remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater, SGI Tuffo (PI Fritjof Fagerlund, Uppsala University)
- Professor Karin Wiberg, Division leader
- Assoc. Prof. Foon Yin Lai, senior lecturer
- Assoc. Prof. Oksana Golovko, researcher
- Dr. Alberto Celma Tirado, researcher
- Dr. Georgios Niarchos, post-doc
- Dr. Javad Mottaghipisheh, post-doc
- Dr. Chen Xing, post-doc
- Dr. Rajneesh Gautam, post-doc
- Dr. Uzair Akbar Khan, post-doc
- Mia Lukaric, Laboratory manager
Postdoktorer
nuvarande
- Rajneesh Gautam (main supervisor) (2024-present), SLU
- Javad Mottaghipisheh (main supervisor) (2023-present), SLU
- Chen Xing (main supervisor) (2023-present), SLU
- Georgios Niarchos (main supervisor) (2022-present), SLU
tidigare
- Foon Yin Lai (main supervisor) (2018-2020), SLU
- Oksana Golovko (main supervisor) (2017-2020), SLU
- Pablo Gago Ferrero (co-supervisor) (2016-2018), SLU
- Meritxell Gross (co-supervisor) (2014-2015), SLU
- Atlasi Daneshvar (co-supervisor) (2012-2014), SLU
- Wen Qi Fan (co-supervisor) (2012), Environment Canada
Doktorander
nuvarande
- Harold Flores Quintana (co-supervisor) (2023-present), SLU
- Oscar Liljeström (main supervisor) (2022-present), SLU
- Tabea Mumberg (co-supervisor) (2022-present), University of Gothenburg
- Nicola Messinger (co-supervisor) (2022-present), Uppsala University
- Svante Rehnstam (main supervisor) (2021-present), SLU
- Sofia Lindblad (main supervisor) (2021-present), SLU
- Njelama Sanga (co-supervisor) (2021-present), Uppsala University
tidigare
- Valentina Ugolini (co-supervisor) (2021-2025), SLU
- Daniel Malnes (co-supervisor) (2021-2023, licentiate), SLU
- Natnael Girma (co-supervisor) (2020-2023, licentiate), SLU
- Björn Bonnet (main supervisor) (2020-2025), SLU
- Sanne Smith (main supervisor) (2020-2023), SLU
- Winnie Nassazi (main supervisor) (2019-2023), SLU
- Georgios Niarchos (co-supervisor) (2018-2022), Uppsala University
- Frank Menger (main supervisor) (2017-2021), SLU
- Alina Koch (co-supervisor) (2016-2021), Örebro University
- Mattias Sörengård (main supervisor) (2016-2020), SLU
- Vera Franke (main supervisor) (2016-2020), SLU
- Hugo De Campos Pereira (co-supervisor) (2016-2022), SLU
- Wiebke Dürig (main supervisor) (2014-2021), SLU
- Rikard Tröger (co-supervisor) (2014-2021), SLU
- Minh Anh Ngyuen (co-supervisor) (2013-2017), SLU
- Jakob Gustavsson (co-supervisor) (2012-2017), SLU
Gästdoktorander
- Théo Paris (2025-present), Université de Poitiers, France
- Jennifer Hooper (2025-present), University of Washington, USA
- Dauren Mussabek (2015-2021), Lunds University, Sweden
- Rachel Rice (2019), College of the Atlantic, USA
- Chao Guo (2021-2022), Yantai Institute of coastal zone research (YIC), China
- Maura Mancinelli (2022), International doctorate in Earth and Marine Sciences (EMAS), Italy
- Michel Hubert (2021-2022), Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Norway
- Malhun Fakioglu (2021-2023), Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey
- Hanna Jörss (2019-2020), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany
- Anastasia Ivanova (2017-2019), Institute of Zoology, Moldova
Gästforskare/postdoktorer
- Dr. Pablo Gago Ferrero (2023-present), August T Larsson Guest Researcher, IDAEA-CSIC, Spain
- Dr. Aleksandra Skrobonja (2024-present), University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Dr. Grażyna Gałęzowska (2025), Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
- Dr. Cristina Postigo (2019-2022), August T Larsson Guest Researcher, IDAEA-CSIC, Spain
- Dr. Rebecca López-Serna (2018-2022), University of Valladolid, Spain
Avslutade projekt
- PhytoRem: Phytoremediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS)-contaminated soil and groundwater, SGI Tuffo (PI Lutz Ahrens)
- STOP-ARG: Stopping spreads of antibiotic resistance genes and antibiotics from on-site sewage facilities to the groundwater, Formas (PI Foon Yin Lai)
- FoodsecURe: Food security through better sanitation: The case of urine recycling, Norwegian Forskningsrådet (PI DGP Rodriguez, NIBO)
- A novel approach for the removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in drinking water by engineering metal-organic and covalent organic frameworks, Formas (PI Lars Öhrström, Chalmers)
- REASSURE: To reuse or not: is purified wastewater a non-toxic and sustainable resource for the future? Swedish EPA (PI Foon Yin Lai)
- Risk rankning of chemicals in drinking water - The Risk Thermometer: Svenskt Vatten (PI Anders Glynn, SLU)
- Sorption of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in soils – mechanisms and modelling, VR (PI J P Gustafsson)
- DANTE: Effect-directed analysis as a tool towards a non-toxic environment - identification of mixture effects and toxicity drivers in water, Formas (PI Johan Lundqvist, SLU)
- Rest to best: Biochar as solution and product in the circular and climate positive society, Vinnova (PI Lund municipality)
- Blackwater treatment and reuse as agricultural fertilizer, Formas (PI Meri Gros)
- ITN PERFORCE3: Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances towards the future of research and its communication in Europe (Coordinator IT Cousins, ACES, Stockholm University, WP3 leader L Ahrens)
- Food waste to new food in an urban context, Formas (PI Malin Hultberg, SLU)
LakePOPs: Lake Mälaren – a lake for millions – but threatened as a natural resource for drinking water, Formas (PI Karin Wiberg) - SafeDrink: Integrated chemical and toxicological methods for early detection of hazardous chemicals in drinking water, Formas (PI Karin Wiberg)
- RedMic: Novel strategies to reduce diffuse emissions of micropollutants from on-site sewage facilities, Formas (PI Patrik Andersson, Umeå University)
- Early detection of organic micropollutants in aquatic ecosystems (PI Lutz Ahrens, Foon Yin Lai, Oksana Golovko)
- POPscreen: Identification of emerging organic pollutants in archived biota, Swedish EPA, Swedish EPA (PI Lutz Ahrens, Karin Wiberg)
- PFASs-Free: Innovative treatment techniques for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water, Formas (PI Lutz Ahrens)
- PFASs-PURE: Innovative treatment techniques for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in soil and groundwater, Vinnova (PI Lutz Ahrens)
- StopPFAS: In-situ remediation of PFASs based on sorption methods, SGI Tuffo (PI F Fagerlund, Uppsala University)
- NonHazCity: Innovative management solutions for minimizing emissions of hazardous substances from urban areas in the Baltic Sea Region, EU Interreg flagship project (PI Stockholm Stad, Tonie Wickman)
- Forest-POPs I: Legacy and emerging POPs in the Swedish forest, Formas (PI Karin Wiberg)
- Forest-POPs II: POPs in Swedish snow and boreal catchment waters, Oscar and Lili Lamms Minne (PI Karin Wiberg)