In collaboration w/ ASFINAG, ILF Consulting Engineers, & GWT Group, we’re working on a groundbreaking #pilot project to treat salty #runoff from winter #road #maintenance in water protection facilities. Why? To recover & concentrate #salt for #reuse, combining ecological & economic benefits... 1/4

🌍 Save the Date for DIPCON 2026! 📅 Thrilled to announce that the 23rd Internat. Conference on #DiffusePollution & #Eutrophication of #IWA will be held in #Vienna from 24–27.11.2026! 👉 iwadipcon2026.com #DIPCON2026 #WaterQuality #PFAS #micropollutants #WaterResearch #TUWien #SaveTheDate 1/4

Last week, we celebrated not one, but two #farewells. It’s not easy to say goodbye to special colleagues like Steffen Kittlaus and @boehler-s.bsky.social, but we feel very fortunate for the time we have shared. Thank you both for your dedication and impact you’ve brought to our team. 1/3

New publication by Nikolaus Weber et al: "The impact of data quality and #outlier detection in high-frequency #WaterQuality data on #WaterManagement and process understanding" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EnvironmentalMonitoring #DataScience #TimeSeriesAnalysis #DataValidation 1/6

The 280 participants of the #Februarseminar 2026, co-organised by #ÖWAV and our research unit, are now travelling back home. We enjoyed the talks that tackled the complex topic of industrial wastewater from manifold complementary angles, but what made us perhaps even happier was to see... 1/3

If you are a Postgraduate or PhD student or a young professional interested in water, wastewater and sustainability, don't miss the #DEX #SummerSchool 2026 from 29 June to 3 July! This edition will strongly focus on the new EU Urban #WastewaterTreatment Directive and ... #KARL 1/2

The #ÖWAV #Februarseminar 2026 has started. This year, we focus on #industrial #wastewater. 280 participants and 21 sponsors confirm that the program designed under the lead of Joerg Krampe addresses a highly relevant and timely topic. #seminar #event #tuwien #treatmentplant 1/3

✍️Call for abstracts✍️ Abstract submissions are now open for the 15th #IWA Specialized Conference on Design, Operation and Economics of Large #Wastewater Treatment Plants, taking place on 12–16.9.2027 in Vienna: lwwtp2027.org We look forward to receiving your submission by 30. Sept. 2026. 1/2

🚀Paper alert "How reliable are estimates of trace contaminants in rivers based on monthly grab samples?" Check all results in the #openaccess paper by Nikolaus Weber et al. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/7

✈️🧪 We’re pleased to share our latest publication advancing #AircraftWastewater surveillance led by Gabriela Eder & @4heilig.bsky.social! 📄 #OpenAccess in ACS #ESTWater: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #WastewaterBasedEpidemiology #WBE #WES #PublicHealth #WastewaterSurveillance @pubs.acs.org 1/7

📅 Save the Date | #IWA #LWWTP 2027 – #Vienna Pleased to announce the 15. International #Water Association #Conference on Design, Operation & Economics of Large #WastewaterTreatment Plants, 12-16. Sept. 2027 in #Vienna, AT. 👉 lwwtp2027.org #IWAConference #Sustainability #WaterProfessionals 1/4

What better way to conclude the lecture on #wastewater treatment than with a guided #tour of the Vienna Wastewater Treatment Plant, led by Joerg Krampe? The highly engaged students had the chance to see how the theory is put into practice – a valuable and inspiring experience. 📷 Joerg Krampe

If you're looking for a compact overview of the state of knowledge and legal framework regarding #PFAS aquatic #pollution in German, check out the new ÖWAV expert paper “PFAS in the Aquatic #Environment”. www.oewav.at/Publikatione... 1/3

New Erasmus guest in our lab! 👋 Manel, MSc student in #EnvironmentalEngineering at the Uni of Sopron, is joining us for the next 2 months to work on and learn about sample preparation and #PFAS analysis. Welcome to the team, Manel! 🎉 📷 Ernis Saracevic, Manel Moumene, Camila Cambui

We're pleased to announce that Joerg Krampe has been appointed new #Chair of #IWA #SpecialistGroup on 'Design, Operation & Costs of Large #WastewaterTreatment Plants'. He succeeds Norbert Jardin, who'll continue to serve on the Management Committee as Past Chair. #design #operation #cost 1/3

We were very lucky and happy to welcome Prof. Susanne Lackner and her PhD researcher Oliver Das from Wasser und Umweltbiotechnologie, IWAR as part of our Water Quality Management #seminar series. #membrane #biofilm #reactor #MABR 1/3

Our dear colleague Gabriela Eder presents her PhD work on #wastewater #surveillance of #pathogens for #PublicHealth in Take 2 of the #FEMCEE video series „Women Building Sustainability”. 👉 youtu.be/3xwDeCpON1w #TUWien #EnvironmentalEngineering #CivilEngineering @tuwien.at 🎥 Matthias Heisler

Wien wird Standort eines Innovationshubs der neuen europäischen Initiative EIT Water! @bokuvienna.bsky.social & TU Wien bündeln ab 2026 ihre Expertise, um Innovationen im Wassersektor zu stärken, von Wasserknappheit bis Kreislaufwirtschaft. www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...

Arabel Long wird für Ihre #Forschung zur #Phosphornutzung und -rückgewinnung mit dem Dr. Ernst Fehrer-Preis ausgezeichnet. Im Rahmen ihrer Dissertation untersuchte sie Herausforderungen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten in unterschiedlichen Ländern. Herzlichen Glückwunsch dazu! www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...

We´re pleased 2share a last publication w/ you in 2025! Full details of the #openaccess article by Felix Pilz et al.: 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... They developed a physico-chemical #equilibrium #model using the SIMBA 3.2 software, which is able to predict #phosphorus #recovery ... 1/3

🎄Our team wishes you a very merry Christmas and a happy 2026 🎄 Video Credits: Abir MELLITI, Ph.D

The RIVER BASINS conference will take place in June 2026 in Karlsruhe (Germany) - a highly recommended event in 2026 for scientists and practitioners interested in #RiverBasin management, #WaterQuality monitoring techniques, emission modelling, ranging from legacy to ... 👉 www.riverbasins.kit.edu

Our former colleague Arabel Long (Amann) has been awarded the highly prestigious Dr. Ernst Fehrer Prize (www.tuwien.at/fehrer-preis/) for her PhD thesis: "Multi-objective analysis of nutrient use and recycling under consideration of economic conditions and regional structures". 📷Zsolt Marton 1/3

As part of the 'Posters in #Parliament' initiative, 23 students from various AT universities had the opportunity to present their bachelor's theses on sustainability, accessibility, and inclusion in the Austrian Parliament. We´re very glad that Jounes Lutterbach,... #poster #waterquality #uiw 1/2

As the year comes to an end, we have successfully concluded the project "Up-to-date Approaches for Managing #Wastewater Discharges from Industrial Clusters into Municipal WWTPs to safeguard Human Health and the Environment – Phase II" . Full report (in German): www.bmluk.gv.at/service/publ... 1/6

ÖWAV #Februarseminar on 24./25.2.2026 at @tuwien.at! We are delighted to present an engaging programme designed & coordinated by Joerg Krampe on the technical, legal and operational challenges of treating #industrial #wastewater. Full Programme & Registration: www.oewav.at/Kurse-Semina... 1/3

"The toilet is a mundane marvel. And access to one is a matter of rights, and survival." - UN, 2025. Happy World Toilet Day! Let's make sure that access to sanitation remains a global priority. #worldtoiletday #sanitation #toilet 1/2

We’re excited to welcome Alessia Torboli to our team as a guest PhD student! Alessia is a double graduate in #EnvironmentalEngineering from the Università di Trento (Italy) and the University of Cincinnati (USA). She is currently pursuing her #PhD at UniTrento C3A, where she focuses on ... 1/4

🎉 Work anniversary 🎉 Congrats, Zdravka Saracevic, on 25 years of reliable, high-throughput chemical analyses & indefatigable support for research and teaching activities in the lab! You´ve always been a fundamental pillar of our team, & this formal celebration of your anniversary is well deserved!

The 2025 edition of the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems' Annual Symposium was once again an inspiring and outstanding event! #doctoral #programme #symposium #interdisciplinary #waterresources #phd 1/4

A new guest in our team! Abir MELLITI, Ph.D joins us for a 3-month research internship, bringing a strong background in environmental chemistry and water treatment technologies. Welcome to the team, Abir! 💧 1/3

🎉We have a new doctor among us 🎉 Our dear colleague Steffen Kittlaus successfully defended his #PhD #thesis "Quantification of Trace Contaminant Emissions on the #RiverBasin Scale", which was supervised by Matthias Zessner and Ottavia Zoboli. #rigorosum #defense #waterquality #micropollutants 1/3

This week, we had the great pleasure & honour of welcoming a high-ranking delegation from the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences 🇨🇳 They toured our labs and joined us for inspiring discussions on shared research priorities. 🌍💧 #science #collaboration #environment #waterresearch 1/2

Last week we had the chance to present our latest research on the potential of #river #bank #filtration for water supply in Austria (“Ufer-Los”). 1/3

A #podcast tip on Ö1 (in German): Norbert Kreuzinger discusses the presence of #pharmaceutical residues in #water systems, their impact on #aquatic #organisms, and what we still largely don't know about the 'cocktail effects' of their mixture in the environment. 1/2 oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

With the start of the academic winter term, we are pleased to announce the beginning of our new #waterquality management #seminar #series. The series is part of the civil and environmental engineering curriculum, but it is #open to #everyone as a #forum for exchange and discussion. 1/4

Our team kicked off the week by hosting not 1 but 2 international #workshops! The #DWAl expert group KA 6.1: #Microbiology in #wastewater treatment”, of which Norbert Kreuzinger is a member, met w/ the main objective of jointly developing a report to consolidate knowledge of the microbiol... 1/3

🎉 Congrats to Lara Anna Vrečar! At grabenlos.2025 – the conference on trenchless technologies – Lara was honoured with the Youth #Award 2025 for her pitch on #trenchless #sewer #rehabilitation. We celebrated it together at the #conference dinner, ... 1/2

Our colleague Liad Weisz recently took part in the 11th #IWA #Membrane Technology #Conference in Daegu, South Korea, where he gave a talk focusing on a possible #quaternary treatment technique - combining Forward #Osmosis with Retentate #Ozonation. 📸 Pere Olives Cegarra 1/3

Emissions of the #greenhouse gas #nitrousoxide #N₂O strongly shape the carbon footprint of the #wastewater sector 🌍💨 The new paper by Ali Valipoor et al. reviews treatment #technologies for emission #abatement, focusing on biological systems like #bioscrubbers. iwaponline.com/wst/article/... 1/3

On 4 September, Vanessa Parravicini was invited to present our team's research on N₂O #bioscrubbing at #wastewater treatment plants within the #IWA #ClimateSmartUtilities Initiative, GHG Sub-Group. 1/4

New insights into #wastewater #surveillance from a 1-year survey of the untreated influent at the Bucharest WWTP and an infectious diseases hospital. Check out the full details in the latest publication by Elena Radu et al.: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/2

The production, use & disposal of #textiles is a major source of #PFAS emissions into the environment. A new study by Iva Ćurić et al. tested hybrid #ultrafiltration (UF) + #reverseosmosis (RO) for PFAS removal from real textile #wastewater 👇 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

Great news, congratulations! We had the pleasure of contributing to Chapter 4 "Water quality of the Danube River and the Black Sea", coordinated by @mzessner.bsky.social, and we look forward to also holding the whole book in our hands. #waterquality #Danube #river

There are many types of diversity. Today we asked ourselves: how diverse is our team in terms of country of origin? The country in which we grew up profoundly shaped our view of the world, how we relate to others, our priorities, our sense of humour, what we eat and drink, and so much more. 1/2

Over the past years, we´ve seen our #interdisciplinar #team become more & more diverse in terms of #academic #background w/ each new #research project. But we had not realised quite how much until we started counting. Impressive, isn't it? In a rapidly changing world, protecting #water ... 1/2

Thrilled 2 share that our colleagues @4heilig.bsky.social & Gabriela Eder contributed 2 the recently published #openAccess article led by Matthew Thornton from @bergthalerlab.bsky.social‬ (@meduniwien.ac.at) in #WaterResearch (@iwapublishing.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

Our colleague Meiqi Liu just published the 1st paper of her #PhD. It's a very interesting piece of research from the #PROMISCES project for anyone curious about sources and emission pathways of #PFAS in the Upper #Danube and, more in general, in large #river basins. doi.org/10.1186/s123... 1/4

This year, we once again took part at #Kinderuni and introduced the young students to the exciting world of #wastewatertreatment. We enjoyed giving an insight into our daily scientific work and hope to have inspired many children for this topic. @boehler-s.bsky.social @moritzpellegrini.bsky.social

Check out our new #OpenAccess paper by Steffen Kittlaus et al., which explores the dynamics of potentially toxic elements in small rivers.💧 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #heavymetals #tracemetals #elements #waterquality #erosion #enrichment #sediment #suspendedsolids #river #emissions 1/4