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Presented before the Division of Environmental Chemistry
American Chemical Society
Philadelphia, PA August 17-21, 2008

A Legend of Environmental Chemistry

Walter Giger

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Walter Giger was given the title of Professor for Environmental Chemistry at the Institute of Aquatic Sciences and Water Pollution Control of ETH Zurich on July 1st, 1995. He heads a research group for
analytically-oriented organic environmental chemistry.

Prof. Giger was born on September 6, 1943 and is from Zurich. He studied at the Department of Chemistry of ETH Zurich. He received his doctorate under Professor Simon at the Organic Chemistry Laboratory of ETH Zurich. He spent one year as a visiting scientist at the Ocenographic Institution at a Woods Hole, MA and another year at Stanford University, CA. Since 1972 he joined the chemistry department of the EAWAG (Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental Science and Technology in Dübendorf. He was head of the department in 1991 and from 1993 to 1995.

His research focuses on the development of analytical methods to determine organic environmental chemicals. These methods are used in process-oriented field studies in order to enlarge knowledge of the environmental behavior of chemicals from 1990 to 1997. Prof. Giger was associate editor of the scientific journal issued by the American Chemical Society, «Environmental Science and Technology» from 1990 to 1997. Since 1998 he is a member of the commitee on drinking water contaminats fo the U.S. American National Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the board of the section for analytical chemistry of the New Swiss Chemical Society. He was named honorary professor at the University of Karlsruhe in 1991.

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Education:

1971 Ph.D. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Technical Sciences
1968 M.Sc. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Chemistry

Postions:

Current		Giger Research Consulting
2001-2002	C.Y. O'Connor Fellow	Curtin University, Perth, Australia
2000-Present	Division Head	EAWAG Duebendorf, Division for Chemical Pollutants, Duebendorf, Switzerland
1999	Guest Scientist	Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1991; 1993-1996	Department Chairman	EAWAG Duebendorf, Chemistry Department, Duebendorf, Switzerland
1987	Lecturer	University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
1978-1979	Guest Scientist	Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1977	Lecturer	ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
1972-1973	Postdoctoral Fellow	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
1972	Group Leader	EAWAG, Department of Chemistry, Duebendorf, Switzerland

Honors/Awards:

2003	Science Medal	University of Helsinki
1995	Professorship	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
1991	Honorary Professorship	University of Karlsruhe

Memberships:

2002-Present	Swiss Chemical Society	President, Division Analytical Chemistry
1998-2001	U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council	Member, Committee on Drinking Water Contaminants
1990-1997; 2000-Present	Environmental Science and Technology	Associate Editor
1980-2002	Chemosphere	Member, Participating Board
	Swiss Chemical Society	Member
	American Chemical Society	Member
	European Environmental Research Organization	Member
	European Association of Organic Geochemists	Member

Research Interests:

Development of analytical methods for organic environmental pollutants and compounds wastewaters, ambient waters and in recent sediments. Investigations in the aquatic, atmospheric and terrestrial environment as well as in waste water and drinking water treatment. Environmental fate of emerging contaminants including antibiotics, flame retardants, anticorrosives and biocides.

Publications:

Chemosphere, 2007, V67, N9, SI, APR, pp 1754-1761.	The historical record of PCB and PCDD/F deposition at Greifensee, a lake of the Swiss plateau, between 1848 and 1999
Environmental Science Technology, 2005, V39, N21, NOV 1, pp 441A-447A	Where have all the fish gone?
Chimia, 2003, V57, N9, pp 529-536	Environmental analytical research in Northern Vietnam - A Swiss- Vietnamese cooperation focusing on arsenic and organic contaminants in aquatic environments and drinking water
Chimia, 2003, V57, N9, pp 485-491	Occurrence and fate of antibiotics as trace contaminants in wastewaters, sewage sludges, and surface waters
Environmental Science Technology, 2002, V36, N17, SEP 1, pp 3645-3651.	Environmental exposure and risk assessment of fluoroquinolone antibacterial agents in wastewater and river water of the Glatt Valley Watershed, Switzerland
Environmental Science Technology, 1999, V33, N4, FEB 15, pp 533-539.	Fate of fluorescent whitening agents in the River Glatt
Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 1998, V216, 1, AUG 23, pp 166-ENVR.	Nonylphenolic chemicals revisited in Switzerland: Monitoring waste water effluents and ambient waters before and after risk reduction measures
Environmental Science Technology, 1998, V32, N13, JUL 1, pp 1882-1887.	Radiocesium dating of sediments from lakes and reservoirs of different hydrological regimes
Chimia, 1997, V51, N12, DEC, pp 871-877.	Determination of hydrophilic and amphiphilic organic pollutants in the aquatic environment