Dr Henning Prommer

Dr Henning Prommer: working on the development and application of reactive transport models

Dr Henning Prommer is a principal research scientist working on the development and application of reactive transport models to water quality issues in porous media.

• 17 March 2009 | Updated 14 October 2011

• Current activities 
• Background 
• Academic qualifications

Current activities

Dr Henning Prommer is a Principal Research Scientist with the Environmental Process Engineering research group of CSIRO Land and Water.

His current project portfolio includes:

• aquifer storage and recovery of potable water in the Leederville Aquifer (Premier’s Water Foundation of Western Australia)

• characterisation and quantification or water quality evolution during injection of desalinated wastewater (Gnangara Mound Replenishment Trial, Water Corporation of Western Australia)

• multi-scale mass transfer processes and their influence on reactive transport in porous media: understanding, quantifying and exploiting subsurface processes (collaborative research with the University of Alabama)

• reactive transport model development and application to in situ leaching processes (CSIRO Minerals Down Under Flagship).

Background

Dr Prommer graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, before working for several years as a consulting environmental engineer.

He conducted his postgraduate studies at the University of Western Australia, where he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1999.

Before joining CSIRO in 2005, Dr Prommer held postdoctoral positions at:

• University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• University of Tuebingen, Germany
• Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

His main research interest is the development and application of reactive transport models to water quality issues in porous media - see www.pht3d.org  [external link].

In particular, the quantification of redox processes and the associated fate of organic and inorganic pollutants.

Academic qualifications

Dr Prommer has been awarded a:

• Diploma, Civil Engineering, University of Stuttgart, 1989: 
• Doctor of Philosophy, Environmental Engineering, University of Western Australia, 1999.

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