PhD-Alumni
Habilitations, postdocs and PhD's supervised by Prof. Merkel
Habilitations
| Name | Research topic | Year |
| Chrstian Siebert | The application of hydrogeology, hydrogeochemistry and remote sensing to investigate water resources in semi-arid regions: the Jordan-Dead Sea Transform | 2016 |
| Volkmar Dunger | Entwicklung und Anwendung des Modells BOWAHALD zur Quantifizierung des Wasserhaushaltes oberflächengesicherter Deponien | 2007 |
| Christian Wolkersdorfer | Water Management at Abandoned Flooded Underground Mines – Fundamentals – Tracer Tests – Modelling – Water Treatment. | 2006 |
Postdoc's
| Name | Research topic | Year |
| Britta Planer-Friedrich | Arsenic speciation by IC-ICP-MS, thioarsenates, Yellowstone (DFG) | 2006-2008 |
| Ketema Tilahun | Groundwater management Ethiopia by means of GIS and groundwater modeling (Humboldt) | 2007-2008 |
| Christian Wolkerdorfer | 2000-2007 | |
| Guo Huaming | Arsenic immobilization (Humboldt) | 2004-2005 |
| Aniekan Edet | GIS, groundwater vulnerability (Humboldt) | |
| Zhu Yinian | Thermodynamics of arsenic minerals (DFG) |
PhD alumni
| Alireza Arab | Carbon dioxide under high pressure and temperature: Application in geothermal energy and in-situ recovery of valuable elements | 01.12.2020 |
| Nadja Schmidt | Genesis and distribution of lithium enriched pore brines at the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia | 06.12.2019 |
| Cornelia Wilske | Identification of water origin and water-rock interaction in a complex multi-aquifer system in the Dead Sea Rift applying chemistry and isotopes | 28.03.2019 |
| Shimelis Berhanu Gebere | Estimation of Groundwater Recharge over dry Lake Haramaya Watershed, Ethiopia | 12.03.2019 |
alkinani1970 yahoo [dot] com (Majid A. Kadhum Alkinani) | Geochemical, hydrochemical and environmental assessment of the Al-Batin Alluvial Fan, southern Iraq | 11.07.2018 |
| wael_kanouayahoo [dot] com (Wael Kanoua) | Hydrogeological Investigation and Modeling on Local- Scale Arsenic-Affected Area in Bangladesh | 24.05.2018 |
| agharaibehgmail [dot] com (Ahmed Gharaibeh ) | Environmental Impact Assessment on Oil Shale Extraction in Central Jordan | 17.06.2017 |
| raghid_sabriyahoo [dot] com (Raghid Sabri) | Geochemical and isotope investigations of carbonate sinter - 2000 years of water supply management in Palestine | 04.11.2016 |
| arasomeryahoo [dot] com (Aras O. Kareem) | Hydrogeological and Environmental Assessment of Tanjero Area, Kurdistan Region, Iraq | 26.10.2016 |
| Rudy Abo | Hydrogeological investigation and modeling of the central and southwestern parts of Aleppo basin, Syria | 15.04.2016 |
| Shwan Omar Ismael | Hydrogeological and Hydrochemical Investigations of the Ahaqlawa-Harrir Basin in Kurdistan, Iraq | 27.11.2015 |
| Hussein Abed Jassas | Integrated water resources management in Al-Khazir Gomel Basin, Northern Iraq | 16.09.2015 |
| Mustafa Al-Mukthar | Modeling Hydrogeological and Suspended Sediment Transport in the Upper Reach of the Spree River Germany | 11.08.2015 |
| Omed Mohammed Mustafa | Karst Hydrogeology and Hydrogeochemistry of Makook Karst System, Kurdistan Region, Iraq | 17.07.2015 |
| Mohammed Omer Khattab | Hydrogeology and hydrochemistry of Mosul Dam Lake, Iraq | 30.04.2015
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| Stephanie Hurst | Radium- und Radium-Isotopen-Untersuchungen als Hilfsmittel für die Aquiferdiagnose unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der geochemischen und hydrochemischen Verhältnisse im Grundwasserleiter | 12.12.2014 |
| Robert Sieland | Hydraulic Investigations of the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia | 12.12.2014 |
| Ramadan Abdelaziz | Modeling of groundwater flow heterogeneity in fractured aquifers | 05.06.2014 |
| Wondemagegnehu Gezahegne | TRLFS and EXAFS investigations and characterisations of the interaction of uranium(VI) with arsenate in aqueous solutions | 28.11.2013 |
| Zheenbek Kulenbekov | Environmental impact assessment study of Kadji-Sau uranium tailing and Issyk-Kul lake, Kyrgyzstan | 14.05.2013 |
| Sosina Shimelese Heile | VS2DRT - Variably saturated two dimensional reactive transport modeling in the vadose zone | 22.02.2013 |
| Sreejesh Nair | Interaction of Uranium-, Magnesium-, Calcium-, Strontium-, and Arsenic Species in Natural Water and its Impact on Mobility of Uranium" | 18.06.2012 |
| Lotfollah Karimzadeh | Effect of Microbial Siderophore DFO-B on Metal Mobility and Bioavailability | 15.05.2012 |
| Ground water investigation and modeling in the western area of Iraq | 05.2012 |
| Shirin Samani | Coherent gas flow patterns in heterogeneous permeability fields; from bench-scale to field-scale. (co-supervising with Helmut Geistlinger, UFZ) | 02.2012 |
| Franziska Steinbruch | Remote sensing techniques to investigate and monitor hydrodynamics of the lake Urema wetland system, Mozambique | 12.2011 |
| Mandi Schipek | Treatment of acid mine lakes - Lab and field studies | 11.2011 |
| Thorsten Lange | Tracing Flow and Salinization Processes at selected Locations of Israel and the West Bank - the Judea Group Aquifer and the Shallow Aquifer of Jericho.(co-supervising with martin Sauter, University of Göttingen and Stephan Weise, UFZ) | 10.2011 |
| Eyad Abushandi | Rainfall-Runoff Modeling in Arid Areas | 05.2011 |
| Taleb S. A Odeh | Structural control on groundwater chemistry, recharge and flow – Integrated approach using remote sensing, GIS and modelling: The case study of Wadi Zerka Ma’in catchment area, Jordan. (co-supervising with Mario Schirmer, UFZ and Richard Gloaguen) | 04.2011 |
| Samer Bachmaf | Uranium Sorption on Clay Minerals: Laboratory Experiments and Surface Complexation Modeling | 11.2010 |
| Clement Mbudi | Understanding Sorption Mechanisms of Uranium onto elemental Iron, Minerals and Shewanella putrefaciens Surfaces in the Presence of Arsenic | 12.2009 |
| Sebastian Kolitsch | Hydrogeologische Analyse und großräumige Modellierung des weiteren Vorerzgebirgssenkenraumes | 02.2008 |
| Götz Leeder | Das Verhalten von BTX-Aromaten in der ungesättigten Bodenzone | 01. 2008 |
| Gunnar Krauß | Direkt-Gasinjektion in wassergesättigte poröse Medien: Visualisierung und Quantifizierung von Gas-Phasen-Verteilung und -Bewegung (co-supervising with Helmut Geistlinger, UFZ) | 2007 |
| Lutz Weber | Untersuchungen zur Direktgasinjektion im Aquifer in Technikum- und Feld-Maßstab (co-supervising with Helmut Geistlinger, UFZ) | 2007 |
| Annika Beckmann | Direct Oxygen Injection Experiments and Investigation of Multi-Component Mass Transfer Processes (co-supervising with Helmut Geistlinger, UFZ) | 2006 |
| Nadir Eraifej | Gas Geochemistry and Isotope Signatures in the Deep Thermal waters in Jordan | 2006 |
| Petra Schneider | Alternative Methoden in der Bergbausanierung - Konzeption von reaktiven Abdecksystemen am Beispielstandort Halde Schüsselgrund | 2006 |
| Jihad Al Mahamid | Integration of Water Resources of the Upper Aquifer in Amman-Zarqa Basin Based on Mathematical Modeling and GIS, Jordan | 2005 |
| Mohamed M. El Alfy | Assessment of human impact on the Quaternary aquifers of Rafah area, Northeast Sinai, Egypt | 2004 |
| Ziad Quannam | A hydrogeological, hydrochemical and environmental study in Wadi Al Arroub drainage basin, South West Bank, Palestine | 2003 |
| Wahyu Hardyanto | Groundwater modeling taking into account probabilistic uncertainties | 2003 |
| Andreas Stumm | Genese und Entwicklung der Mineralwässer in Bad Brambach | 2002 |
| Chicgoua Noubacteb | Untersuchungen zur passiven in-situ-Immobilisierung von U(VI) aus Wasser | 2002 |
| Taoufik Naamoun | Hydrochemical and radiometric investigations of the Uranium tailings Schneckenstein | 2002 |
| Klaus Flesch | Hydrogeologisches Modell der Sächsischen Kreide | 2000 |
| Exaud Mwende | Geogenic sources of high fluorine content in the Arumeru district natural waters, NE Tanzania - with implication for better drinking water supply | 2000 |
| Marwan Ghanem | Hydrogeologie und Hydrochemie des Einzugsgebietes Faria / Wetsbank | 1999 |
| Claudia Helling | Hydrogeochemische Untersuchungen von müllüberlagerten Uran-Tailings unter dem Aspekt einer effektiven Langzeitüberwachung | 1999 |
| Peter Birkle | Herkunft und Umweltauswirkungen der Geothermalwässer von Los Azufres, Mexiko | 1998 |
| Corina Dunger | Sickerwasser- und Schadstoffbewegung aus ausgewählten Bergehalden Sachsens und Sachen-Anhalts | 1998 |
| Olaf Nitzsche | TReAC-Modell zur Beschreibung des reaktiven Stofftransports | 1997 |