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Dr. Jürgen Gandraß

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Dr. Jürgen Gandraß

Organic Environmental Chemistry

Head of Department

Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-1857

Fax: +49 (0)4152 87-2332

E-mail contact

Research expertise and focus

  • Ultra-trace analysis of organic contaminants
  • Mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS, LC-MS/MS, MALDI-MS/MS, GC-HRMS, LC-HRMS)
  • Effect-directed chemical analysis
  • Quality assurance and management

His current focus is on the analysis of emerging organic contaminants linked to environmental fate modelling and ecosystem and human health assessment.


Personal data

1984 Diploma in Environmental Engineering at the Hamburg University of Applied Science

2005 PhD at the University of Lüneburg at the department of Environmental Sciences

Work experience

  • BASF Australia Ltd. in Melbourne
  • Biological Institute Helgoland
  • since 1984 Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon Research Centre for Material and Coastal Sciences

Teaching experience

Since 2000 he has been teaching at Leuphana University in Lüneburg in graduate courses on xenobiotics in the environment, atmospheric trace substances, assessment of environmental chemicals, ecosystem responses to chemical pollution, and ecology and environmental chemistry.

Selected Publications