Susanne Lackner

Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt，Germany

Prof. Susanne Lackner is a Professor for Water and Environmental Biotechnology at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. She holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark where she first started her research on MABRs. Prof. Susanne Lackner conducts fundamental and applied research in the field of wastewater engineering. Her research has focused on Innovative processes for biological nitrogen removal (nitritation, anammox); Application of molecular biological methods for optimization of biological processes in (waste)water treatment; Biofilm processes for wastewater treatment systems; Mathematical simulation of biochemical processes and biofilm modeling; Fate of synthetic micro- and nanoparticles in biofilm systems; Membrane-bound biofilm reactors for pollutant elimination; Application of microelectrodes for the study of biological activity of sludge and biofilms. She is member of the Management Committees of the IWA Biofilms Specialist Group (since 2018) and the IWA Specialist Group Nutrient Removal and Recovery (since 2014).