Dr.

Stephanie Spahr

Programme Area Speaker
Research Group Leader
Phone
+49 (0)30 64181 697
Room
220

Müggelseedamm 301, 12587 Berlin

Profile
Research group
Expertise
  • Trace organic contaminants in surface waters, wastewater, stormwater, and drinking water
  • Transformation processes of organic contaminants in natural and engineered aquatic systems
  • Advanced oxidation processes and sorption processes for water treatment 
  • Urban blue-green infrastructure for water purification
  • Compound-specific isotope analysis to assess contaminant sources and transformation mechanisms
CV

Scientific Career

Since 2021        Research Group Leader, IGB Berlin, Germany

2019 - 2021       Junior Research Group Leader, University of Tübingen, Germany, Center for Applied Geoscience

2016 - 2019       Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University, CA, USA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Research Center for Re-Inventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt).

 

Education

2012 - 2016     PhD in Environmental Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) & Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag, Switzerland). Thesis: Formation of N-nitrosodimethylamine during water disinfection with chloramine: Insights into reaction mechanisms from isotope fractionation analyses.

2010 - 2012      MSc in Geoecology, University of Tübingen, Germany. Thesis: Carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of benzotriazoles (conducted for 8 months at Eawag, Switzerland)

2007 - 2010     BSc in Geoecology / Ecosystem management, University of Tübingen, Germany

 

Honors and Awards

 

Professional Activities  

 

Memberships

  • American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
  • Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
  • German Water Chemistry Society

Publications

2024

September 2024
Beate I. Escher; Jörg Ahlheim; Alexander Böhme; Dietrich Borchardt; Werner Brack; Georg Braun; John K. Colbourne; Janek Paul Dann; Joern Gessner; Annika Jahnke; Maria König; Nils Klüver; Martin Krauss; Jungeun Lee; Xiaojiang Li; Stefan Lips; Luisa Orsini; Karsten Rinke; Mechthild Schmitt-Jansen; Stefan Scholz; Tobias Schulze; Stephanie Spahr; Nadin Ulrich; Markus Weitere; Elisabeth Varga
January 2024
Authors: Tobias Goldhammer, Sabine Hilt, Michael Hupfer, Jan Köhler, Jörg Lewandowski, Stephanie Spahr, Markus Venohr. Editorial team: Johannes Graupner

IGB-Feedback zur Fortschreibung der NBS2030: Biodiversität und Ökosysteme der Binnengewässer stärker berücksichtigen[25 August 2022]

2023

2022

December 2022
Autorzy odpowiedzialni: Christian Wolter, Jörn Geßner, Jan Köhler, Martin Pusch, Tobias Goldhammer, Stephanie Spahr. Redakcja: Angelina Tittmann, Johannes Graupner. Publisher: Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries(IGB)

Przyszłość Odry : Naukowe zalecenia dotyczące działań w następstwie katastrofy ekologicznej spowodowanej przez człowieka: IGB Policy Brief

December 2022
Authors: Tobias Goldhammer, Sabine Hilt, Michael Hupfer, Jan Köhler, Jörg Lewandowski, Stephanie Spahr, Markus Venohr. Editorial team: Johannes Graupner

Nutrients – Action plan for better management: IGB Feedback [25 August 2022]

March 2022
Dr. Clarissa Glaser; Prof. Dr. Michael Kunz; Dr. Stephanie Spahr; Dr. Ute Weber

Messkampagne liefert einzigartige Daten über Wetterextreme

Wasserwirtschaft. - 112(2022)2-3, 80-81

2021

December 2021
PD Dr. Jörg Lewandowski; Dr. Tobias Goldhammer; Anja Höhne; Lukas Kleine; Anna Lena Kronsbein; PD Dr. Thomas Mehner; Birgit Maria Müller; PD Dr. Martin Pusch; Christoph Josef Reith; Hanna Schulz; Dr. Stephanie Spahr

Ansiedlung von industriellen Großprojekten in wasserarmen Gebieten: [wwt Modernisierungsreport 2021/2022]

Wasserwirtschaft - Wassertechnik. - (2021)Sonderausgabe Modernisierungsreport 2021/2022, 32-39
Contact person
Mark Gessner
Sabine Hilt
Department
(Dept. 1) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry
(Dept. 2) Community and Ecosystem Ecology
(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology
Start
07/2015
End
06/2024
Topic
Contact person
Martin Pusch
Christian Wolter
Sonja Jähnig
Thomas Mehner
Department
(Dept. 1) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry
(Dept. 2) Community and Ecosystem Ecology
(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology
(Dept. 4) Fish Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture
(Dept. 5) Evolutionary and Integrative Ecology
Start
02/2023
End
04/2026
Topic
Publications before 2021

Spahr, S., Teixido, M., Sedlak, D. L., Luthy, R. G. Hydrophilic trace organic contaminants in urban stormwater: Occurrence, toxicological relevance, and the need to enhance green stormwater infrastructure. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 2020, 6, 15-44.

Ashoori., N., Teixido, M., Spahr, S., LeFevre, G. H., Sedlak, D. L., Luthy, R. G. Evaluation of pilot-scale biochar-amended woodchip bioreactors to remove nitrate, metals, and trace organic contaminants from urban stormwater runoff. Water Research, 2019, 154, 1-11.

Spahr, S., von Gunten, U., Hofstetter, T. B. Carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen isotope fractionation trends in N-nitrosodimethylamine reflect the formation pathway during chloramination of tertiary amines. Environmental Science and Technology, 2017, 51 (22), 13170-13179.

Spahr, S., Cirpka, O. A., von Gunten, U., Hofstetter, T. B. Formation of N-nitrosodimethylamine during chloramination of secondary and tertiary amines: Role of molecular oxygen and radical intermediates. Environmental Science and Technology, 2017, 51 (1), 280-290.

Spahr, S., Bolotin, J., Schleucher, J., Ehlers, I., von Gunten, U., Hofstetter, T. B. Compound-specific carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen isotope analysis of N-nitrosodimethylamine in aqueous solutions. Analytical Chemistry, 2015, 87(5), 2916-2924.

Hofstetter, T. B., Bolotin, J., Pati, S. G., Skarpeli-Liati, M., Spahr, S., Wijker, R. S. Isotope effects as new proxies for organic pollutant transformation. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, 2014, 68(11), 788-792.

Huntscha, S., Hofstetter, T. B., Schymanski, E. L., Spahr, S., Hollender, J. Biotransformation of benzotriazoles: Insights from transformation product identification and compound-specific isotope analysis. Environmental Science and Technology. 2014, 48(8), 4435-4443.

Spahr, S., Huntscha, S., Bolotin, J., Maier, M. P., Elsner, M., Hollender, J., Hofstetter, T. B. Compound-specific isotope analysis of benzotriazole and its derivatives. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 2013, 405(9), 2843-2856.