Eike Marie Thaysen
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eike.thaysen@idaea.csic.es
ORCID:
0000-0003-3627-5906
Research group: Groundwater and Hydrogeochemistry
An biogeochemist with four years of highly international research experience. Eike´s core research areas include biogeochemical cycling of carbon and hydrogen, the effect of climate change on global ecosystems, global climate change mitigation technologies as well as energy storage technologies that can secure a low carbon energy future. Eike advances and transforms current understanding in these areas through state-of-the-art experiments and benchmarking of numerical modelling. Eike is currently project manager and researcher on the IDAEA-lead UPWATER project, investigating groundwater pollution and remediation strategies.
Eike graduated as an environmental chemist from Copenhagen university in 2010, and completed her education with a PhD degree in biogeochemistry at the Danish Technical University in 2013. Since then Eike has had three postdoctoral positions at the The Danish Technical University, at IDAEA-CSIC and at Edinburgh University, respectively, where she advanced her field of research with significant scientific publications and developed her teaching in environmental geochemistry as well as in the supervision of Master´s studients. In 2017 Eike also worked as an environmental consultant in geochemical matters.
UPWATER
Understanding groundwater Pollution to protect and enhance WATERquality
Groundwater plays a key role in providing water supplies and livelihoods to respond the pronounced water scarcity. Groundwater pollution is a widespread worldwide problem. The scientific and technological goals of the UPWATER project are:
-To provide scientific knowledge on identification, occurrence and fate of pollutants in the groundwater with cost-efficient sampling methods based on passive samplers.
-To develop sources apportionment methods to identify and quantify the pollution sources.
-To validate and assess the performance of bio-based engineered natural treatment systems designed as mitigation solutions.
The monitoring and mitigation solutions will be validated in 3 case studies (Denmark, Greece and Spain), representing different climate conditions and a combination of rural, industrial and urban pollution sources. Expected outcomes include amongst others updating the EU chemical priority lists, scaling-up the pilot bio-based solutions to demonstration scale, the adoption of some preventive measures in the case studies and the close-to-market development of the passive sampling devices.