Prof. Thomas Ternes is a leading expert in environmental analytical chemistry and water quality, internationally recognised for his pioneering research on the occurrence, fate and transformation of pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals and other organic micropollutants in aquatic environments. He studied Chemistry at Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Currently, he is the Head of the Qualitative Hydrology Division at the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) in Koblenz and a professor at the University of Koblenz for environmental chemistry and environmental analysis. His research focuses on identifying transformation products of organic micropollutants and understanding their formation and fate in the urban water cycle, with particular emphasis on wastewater treatment and drinking water production. From 2011 to 2017, he led the ERC Advanced Grant project ATHENE, which investigated the microbial transformation of emerging contaminants during biological wastewater treatment. Since January 2022, he has chaired the Water Chemistry Society, a division of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). For more than 14 years he was an editor of the journal Water Research.
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