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Profile
Dr Jannis Wenk studied Environmental Engineering at the Technical University Berlin (Germany) including a one year stay at POSTECH (Korea). Jannis conducted his PhD-studies at Eawag and ETH Zurich (Switzerland) from where he graduated in 2012.
Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley (California, USA).
Jannis joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in January 2015.
Research
Jannis’ research has been in the areas of aquatic oxidation processes, transformation pathways of trace organic water contaminants, chemistry of humic substances and environmental photochemistry. More recently Jannis became also interested on the fate of pathogens during water treatment and nature-oriented low-energy water treatment systems.
At the University of Bath and the recently formed Water Innovation and Research Centre (WIRC) Jannis would like to utilise his knowledge in aquatic oxidation chemistry and build up his initial research programme on oxidation and advanced oxidation processes for water treatment. Key aspects will be the combination of oxidative processes with other treatment processes, integration of oxidative processes into existing water treatment schemes and process design for oxidative waste water treatment applications for both chemical contaminant and pathogen removal.
Jannis is also interested in understanding and improving the performance of natural water treatment systems such as constructed wetlands, reed beds and riverbanks.
He is excited about joining the Department of Chemical Engineering and is looking forward to numerous collaborations within the University, the Department and with industry partners, providing engineering solutions on water related problems.
Willing to supervise doctoral students
PhD supervision areas
- Chemical oxidation in water treatment processes
- Fate and removal of contaminants and pathogens in the urban water cycle
- Role of aquatic humic substances
- Energy-efficiency of water treatment and natural water treatment systems
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Projects
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Arsenic and fluoride in a complex environment: exposure, risks and remediation strategies
1/01/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research council
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Photocatalytic Anodic Membranes for Micropollutant Removal
Tasso Guaraldo, T., Mattia, D. & Wenk, J.
Project: Research council
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GCRF - SmARTER: Sustainable Approaches for Resilience Building in North East Brazil
Di Lorenzo, M., Wenk, J., Kjeldsen, T. & Scott, J. L.
1/11/18 → 31/07/19
Project: Other
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A Modular Platform for Colourimetric Sensing of Drinking Water Contaminants
4/12/17 → 3/12/19
Project: Research council
Research Output
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A Colorimetric Chemosensor Based on a Nozoe Azulene That Detects Fluoride in Aqueous/Alcoholic Media
Murfin, L. C., Chiang, K., Williams, G. T., Lyall, C. L., Jenkins, A. T. A., Wenk, J., James, T. D. & Lewis, S. E., 29 Jan 2020, In: Frontiers in Chemistry. 8, 10.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile7 Citations (Scopus)19 Downloads (Pure) -
A simple, azulene-based colorimetric probe for the detection of nitrite in water
Murfin, L. C., López-Alled, C. M., Sedgwick, A. C., Wenk, J., James, T. D. & Lewis, S. E., 1 Feb 2020, In: Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering. 14, 1, p. 90-96 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile8 Citations (Scopus)32 Downloads (Pure) -
Azulenesulfonium and azulenebis(sulfonium) salts: Formation by interrupted Pummerer reaction and subsequent derivatisation by nucleophiles
López-Alled, C. M., Martin, F. J. O., Chen, K. Y., Kociok-Köhn, G., James, T. D., Wenk, J. & Lewis, S. E., 4 Dec 2020, In: Tetrahedron. 76, 49, 131700.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Colorimetric detection of Hg2+ with an azulene-containing chemodosimeter via dithioacetal hydrolysis
López-Alled, C. M., Murfin, L. C., Kociok-Köhn, G., James, T. D., Wenk, J. & Lewis, S. E., 28 Sep 2020, In: The Analyst. 145, 19, p. 6262-6269 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Computational fluid dynamics simulation of two-phase flow and dissolved oxygen in a wastewater treatment oxidation ditch
Matko, T., Chew, J., Wenk, J., Chang, J. & Hofman, J., 31 Jan 2021, In: Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 145, p. 340-353 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Datasets
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Dataset and figures for "Enhancing the Photo-corrosion Resistance of ZnO Nanowire Photocatalysts"
Taylor, C. (Creator), Ramirez Canon, A. M. (Creator), Wenk, J. (Creator) & Mattia, D. (Creator), University of Bath, 19 Jun 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00675
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