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Dr. Jürgen Schnelle-Kreis
Helmholtz Munich / Matthias Tunger

Dr. Jürgen Schnelle-Kreis

Jürgen uses analytical methods to chemically characterize aerosol particles in the environment and in emission and aging studies. We study where aerosol particles come from in the environment, how they are distributed there, and what processes contribute to their changes. Our goal is to better understand how aerosol particles affect our health.

Jürgen uses analytical methods to chemically characterize aerosol particles in the environment and in emission and aging studies. We study where aerosol particles come from in the environment, how they are distributed there, and what processes contribute to their changes. Our goal is to better understand how aerosol particles affect our health.

Academic Pathway

Jürgen is a graduate chemist and holds a PhD in chemistry.

Jürgen started his scientific career in the Indoor Air Pollution Working Group at the Institute of Ecological Chemistry of the GSF Research Center for Environment and Health. After a short collaboration in the Department of Ecological Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, he became deputy head of the Chemistry Department of the bifa Environmental Institute in Augsburg. Here he successfully continued the work he had already started at the GSF Research Center in the field of aerosol research.

In 2009, Jürgen returned to Helmholtz Zentrum München and took over the leadership of the aerosol chemistry group in the Comprehensive Molecular Analytics cooperation group.

Fields of Work and Expertise

Analytical ChemistryAerosol ChemistrySource Apportionment

Professional Background

1992

PostDoc, Indoor Air Pollution Working Group GSF - Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich

2001

Deputy Head Environment and Process Chemistry, bifa Environmental Institute, Augsburg

2009

Head of Aerosol Chemistry, Comprehenisve Molecular Analytics, Helmholtz Munich

Publications

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2015 PloS one 10(6): e0126536-e0126536

Oeder, S., T. Kanashova, O. Sippula, S. C. Sapcariu, T. Streibel, J. M. Arteaga-Salas, J. Passig, M. Dilger, H.-R. Paur, C. Schlager, S. Mulhopt, S. Diabate, C. Weiss, B. Stengel, R. Rabe, H. Harndorf, T. Torvela, J. K. Jokiniemi, M.-R. Hirvonen, C. Schmidt-Weber, C. Traidl-Hoffmann, K. A. BeruBe, A. J. Wlodarczyk, Z. Prytherch, B. Michalke, T. Krebs, A. S. H. Prevot, M. Kelbg, J. Tiggesbaumker, E. Karg, G. Jakobi, S. Scholtes, J. Schnelle-Kreis, J. Lintelmann, G. Matuschek, M. Sklorz, S. Klingbeil, J. Orasche, P. Richthammer, L. Muller, M. Elsasser, A. Reda, T. Groger, B. Weggler, T. Schwemer, H. Czech, C. P. Ruger, G. Abbaszade, C. Radischat, K. Hiller, J. T. M. Buters, G. Dittmar and R. Zimmermann

Particulate matter from both heavy fuel oil and diesel fuel shipping emissions show strong biological effects on human lung cells at realistic and comparable in vitro exposure conditions

2014 Nature 514(7521): 218-222

Huang, R.-J., Y. Zhang, C. Bozzetti, K.-F. Ho, J.-J. Cao, Y. Han, K. R. Daellenbach, J. G. Slowik, S. M. Platt, F. Canonaco, P. Zotter, R. Wolf, S. M. Pieber, E. A. Bruns, M. Crippa, G. Ciarelli, A. Piazzalunga, M. Schwikowski, G. Abbaszade, J. Schnelle-Kreis, R. Zimmermann, Z. An, S. Szidat, U. Baltensperger, I. E. Haddad and A. S. H. Prevot

High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China