Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management (ISWA)

Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching for Sustainable Environmental and Resource Protection

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About the Institute

The Institute for Urban Water Engineering, Water Quality, and Waste Management (ISWA) is part of Faculty 2 (Civil and Environmental Engineering) at the University of Stuttgart. It is located at Bandtäle 2 in Stuttgart-Büsnau and is part of the Vaihingen campus. In addition to lecture halls, research laboratories, a library, and staff offices, the ISWA also operates the teaching and research wastewater treatment plant, making the institute unique in Germany.

Its Executive Director is Prof. Dr. Patrick Bräutigam.

The institute is led by the Executive Board and is divided into three chairs: Multiscale Environmental Process Engineering (Prof. Dr. David Werner), Environmental Microbiology (Prof. Sara Kleindienst), and Technical Environmental Chemistry and Sensor Technology (Prof. Patrick Bräutigam).

The KomS – Competence Center for Trace Substances BW (Vera Kohlgrüber) is based at the Chair of Technical Environmental Chemistry and Sensor Technology.

In addition, there is the Central Support Unit, consisting of the Analytical Platform (Dr. Christian Zerfaß, Dr. Vitor Deichmann), the Baden-Württemberg Analytical Quality Assurance Unit (Dr.-Ing. Frank Baumeister), and the Administrative Office (Daniel Raja-Nigl), as well as the Teaching and Research Wastewater Treatment Plant (Peter Maurer).



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