Dr. Rer. Nat. Thomas Oppenländer

Biography

Thomas Oppenländer was born in Hanau (Hesse) and studied chemistry from 1976 to 1984 at the Bavarian Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg. While studying, he was a scholarship holder of the German Cultural Foundation and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. In July 1984, he was a member of the working group of Prof. Waldemar Adam, with a topic from organic photochemistry. He then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Colorado State University (Fort Collins, USA) as a NATO research fellow (DAAD) in the working group of Prof. Albert I. Meyers. Here he dealt with the synthesis of chiral drugs. From Fort Collins, the route then led him to Switzerland, to Hoffmann-LaRoche, where he studied light-induced side effects of drugs and used light to produce active substances (eg vitamin D3). In April 1991 he accepted a reputation as Professor at Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences for the areas of chemistry and environmental engineering. Since then, he has been working on the development and application of photochemical water treatment processes with novel ultraviolet light sources. Thomas Oppenländer is a co-author and author of some 60 scientific publications and published a book entitled "Photochemical Purification of Water and Air" (Verlag Wiley-VCH, Weinheim) on the year of Chemistry 2003. Since then, he has been working on the development and application of photochemical water treatment processes with novel ultraviolet light sources. Thomas Oppenländer is a co-author and author of some 60 scientific publications and published a book entitled "Photochemical Purification of Water and Air" (Verlag Wiley-VCH, Weinheim) on the year of Chemistry 2003. Since then, he has been working on the development and application of photochemical water treatment processes with novel ultraviolet light sources. Thomas Oppenländer is a co-author and author of some 60 scientific publications and published a book entitled "Photochemical Purification of Water and Air" (Verlag Wiley-VCH, Weinheim) on the year of Chemistry 2003.

Research Interest

Inorganic chemistry Organic chemistry Bio-organic chemistry Organic-chemical structural analysis Water and air analysis Internship in Organic Chemistry: Laboratory Techniques High-energy photochemistry (172nm, 185nm, vacuum UV photochemistry) Photoreactivity of medicines, cosmetics, agrochemicals Photodynamic Therapy (Photomedicine) "Upscaling" of photoreactors, technical photochemistry Applications of photochemistry in environmental technology: UV oxidative water and waste water treatment processes (Advanced Oxidation Processes and Technologies: AOPs and AOTs) Process engineering development of excimer photoreactors (incoherent excimer emitters)