Dr. Markus Lenz

Employment history
Since 2022
Group Leader “Applied Circular Economy” and Lecturer. Institute for Ecopreneurship, Uni-versity of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)

2014
Invited Professorship, Université Paris Est - Marne la Vallée (France)

Since 2009
Senior researcher, Institute for Ecopreneurship, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)

2008 – 2009
PostDoc, Institute for Ecopreneurship, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)

Since 2008
Guest researcher, Department of Environmental Technology, Wageningen University (the Netherlands).

Education
2004-2008
PhD, Department of Environmental Technology, Wageningen University (the Netherlands). Thesis: “Biological selenium removal from (waste)waters”

1998-2004
Diplom-Biologe (Biology, equiv. MSc), Technical University, RWTH Aachen (Germany). Thesis: "Environmental fate of cyanides and heavy metals in sediment"

Reviewer

• for international journals: Environmental Science & Technology, Re/Views in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Science of the total Environment, Journal of Environmental Quality, Nature Scientific Reports, else
• for large scientific installations: Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light source (SSRL) beam time allocation; Peer Review Committee member « Ancient Materials, Environment and Earth » French Synchrotron “Soleil”
• for national science foundations: CONICYT (Chile); BBSRC (UK); NSERC (Canada), Irish Research Council

Memberships

• Geochemical Society, American Society for Microbiology, International Waters Association

• Bravo, D., Lenz, M. (2014). Elemental Selenium Nanoparticles and Production Method (WO2014202686)

• ORCID

• Researchgate