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WISSENSCHAFTLICHE MITARBEITERIN
Raum DE 15, 2504
Tel. 040-42878-2864
eMail: s.heise@tu-harburg.de
Sediment Risk Assessment, Microbial, Fuzzy-Logic based Expert System
During her education as a biological oceanographer, Dr. Susanne Heise specialized in the field of sediment microbiology, and investigated the effects of heavy metal contamination on bacterial physiology (Institute for Marine Research, Kiel), the hydrodynamics of a sediment resuspension module, the introduction of bacteria into sediments (Technical University Hamburg Harburg), and the stabilization of sediment surfaces by microorganisms (Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde). During this research period, she was scientific leader of a number of research cruises in the Baltic Sea, and organized and held two short term lectureships on marine ecology in the Philippines (Iligan Institute of Technology).
From 1998 till 2002 Dr. Heise was employed as a senior scientist in the ecotoxicological working group of Dr. Wolfgang Ahlf at the Technical University Hamburg Harburg where she focussed research on risk assessment issues and developed a fuzzy based expert system for ecotoxicological classification of Elbe sediments. In 2002 she took over the position of a project leader within the "Consulting Centre for Integrated Sediment Management" at the TUHH. Since then, she has been working for a variety of national and regional authorities (e.g. BMBF, BfG, BUG Hamburg) and and industries (Environ-chemie, Hamburg Port Authority, Port Authority of Rotterdam, ThyssenKrupp) on questions of sediment management, ecotoxicology, and risk assessment.
From 2002 to 2004, she headed the working group on "Risk management and Communication" within the European Demand driven sediment research network (externer Link)"SedNet" (www.sednet.org). Since 2004 she is part of the steering group of the now self-sustained network and on the founding editorial board of the SETAC-journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. Since 2005 she is a member of the SedNet/Setac Europe advisory group on sediments and member of the editorial board of International Environmental Assessment and Management, as well as of Journal of Soils and Sediments (Subject editor).
