Joshua Sawall, M. Sc.

Geoscientific research fellow

Phone: +49 721 175 2805
E-Mail:
joshua.sawall[at]smnk.de

Responsibililties at SMNK

  • Inventory of the external storage
  • Receiving and sighting of geological-mineralogical collections
  • Black Forest collection

 

Research interests

  • Aquatic transport of ionizable organic pollutants
  • Combined influence of pH and ionic strength on pollutant transport
  • Co-transport of ionizable organic pollutants on clay colloids

CV

  • Since 2019 PhD student at the Department of Applied Geochemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin, dissertation topic “Coupled effects of Montmorillonite colloids on the transport of organic cations in quartz sand aquifers.”
  • 2019 M. Sc. Applied Geosciences at Technische Universität Berlin with focus on applied geochemistry
  • 2016 B. Sc. Applied Geosciences at Technische Universität Berlin with focus on mineralogy/petrology

 

Publications

Sawall, J., & Schiperski, F. (2022). Mutual Effects of pH and Competing Cations on the Mobility of Metoprolol in Saturated Quartz Sand: Parameter Estimation and Mobility Prediction Using Retardation Modeling. ACS ES&T Water3(1), 41-50.

Schiperski, F., Altenburg, L., Gitter, M., Kutzschbach, M., & Sawall, J. (2023). Sorption of the β-Blocker Metoprolol on Montmorillonite Colloids as a Function of pH and Concentration of Competing Sodium Ions. ACS ES&T Water, 3(8), 2427-2436.

 

Abstracts

Sawall, J., Warner, W., Licha, T., Schiperski, F. „Influence of pH and Na-concentration on facilitated and hampered transport of metoprolol by montmorillonite colloids in water-saturated quartz sand.“ 2023 GeoBerlin 2023 Conference.

Sawall, J., and Schiperski, F. "Coupled effects of pH and competing cations on metoprolol mobility: column experiments and parameter estimation using reactive transport modeling." 2022 Goldschmidt Conference. GOLDSCHMIDT, 2022.

Sawall, J., and Schiperski, F. “Mutual effects of pH and ionic strength on the mobility of metoprolol in saturated quartz sand.” 2021 GeoKarlsruhe 2021 Conference.

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