Dr. Christian Bogdal

ETH Zürich
Dr. Christian Bogdal
Inst. f. Chemie-/Bioingenieuwissenschaften
HCI G135
Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10
CH-8093 Zürich
ZH

Phone: +41 44 632 5951
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curriculum vitae

Since 2009, Christian Bogdal has been postdoctoral research fellow in environmental chemistry in the Safety and Environmental Technology Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).

He earned his doctoral degree in chemistry from ETH Zurich in 2008. The title of his doctoral thesis was: Environmental fate of persistent organic pollutants in Lake Thun, Switzerland - Combining chemical trace analysis and multimedia modeling. He did his thesis in the Laboratory for Analytical Chemistry at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa) under supervison of Prof. Konrad Hungerbühler from ETH Zurich.

He received his master degree in environmental sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in 2005. He did his master thesis at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Research Interests

Topics
- Environmental fate of persistent organic chemicals, including sources and sinks of chemicals, transport pathways and transformation processes.
- Temporal trends of persistent chemicals in the environment.
- Identification and quantification of primary and secondary sources of persistent organic pollutants in the environment.

Compounds
Investigated compound classes include persistent organic pollutants such as polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), as well as organochlorine pesticides. Next to these legacy pollutants, contemporary compounds, including brominated flame retardants and synthetic musk compounds, are also in the main focus of research.

Approach
Analytical chemistry tools for the analysis of field samples are combined with multimedia models. The laboratory analysis are performed in collaboration with further research groups with gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS), as well as high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). The devolped models are fugacity based multicompartmental fate models.

Projects

- Melting glaciers as a secondary source of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (GlazioPOP).
- Primary emissions and fate of POPs and other persistent chemicals in urban areas (CityPOP).
- Emissions, fate, and mass balance of POPs in Switzerland (SwissPOP)
- Environmental fate of brominated flame retardants and other persistent organic pollutants in aqueous ecosystems (description).
- Altitudinal fractionation of persistent organic pollutants along Alpine slopes.

Several topics for a master thesis are possible and can be discussed. Interested students are invited to contact Christian Bogdal (description).

Collaborations

In his research Christian Bogdal collaborates with many research groups in Switzerland and abroad, including:

- Laboratory for Analytical Chemistry at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa).

- Sedimentology Group at the Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag).

- Organic Trace Analysis Group at the Swiss Federal Research Station Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon (ART).

- Laboratory for Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).

- Laboratory for Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI).

- The Centre for Chemicals Management at Lancaster University (Lancaster University).

- Environmental Chemistry Group of Frank Wania at the University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTSC).

Awards

Best publication award at the 20th Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting - SETAC Europe, Seville, Spain, May 2010.

Restek conference proceeding award at 28th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants – Dioxin 2008, Birmingham, United Kingdom, August 2008.

Otto Hutzinger presentation award at the 27th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants – Dioxin 2007, Tokyo, Japan, August 2007.

Otto Hutzinger presentation award at the 26th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants – Dioxin 2006, Oslo, Norway, August 2006.

Publications

peer reviewed publications

Bogdal, C., Bucheli, T.D., Agarwal, T., Anselmetti, F.S., Blum, F., Hungerbühler, K., Kohler, M., Schmid, P., Scheringer, M., Sobek, A., Contrasting temporal trends and relationships of total organic carbon, black carbon, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in rural low-altitude and remote high-altitude lakes. J. Environ. Monit., 2011, 13, 1316 - 1326.

Bogdal, C., Schmid, P., Blüthgen, N., Anselmetti, F.S., Gletscher als Speicher und Quellen von langlebigen Schadstoffen. Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft, 2011, 2, 80-84.

Schmid, P., Bogdal, C., Blüthgen, N., Anselmetti, F.S., Zwyssig, A., Hungerbühler, K., The missing piece: sediment records in remote mountain lakes confirm glaciers being secondary sources of persistent organic pollutants. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45, 203-208.

Bogdal, C.; Nikolic, D.; Lüthi, M.; Schenker, U.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., Release of legacy pollutants from melting glaciers: model evidence and conceptual understanding. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44, 4063-4069.

Bogdal, C.; Schmid, P.; Anselmetti, F.S.; Scheringer, M., See-Sedimente als Zeugen der Schadstoffbelastung. Nachrichten aus der Chemie 2010, 58, 561-564.

Bogdal, C.; Scheringer, M.; Schmid, P.; Bläuenstein, M.; Kohler, M.; Hungerbühler, K., Levels, fluxes and time trends of persistent organic pollutants in Lake Thun, Switzerland: Combining trace analysis and multimedia modeling. Sci. Total Environ. 2010, 408, 3654-3663.

Bogdal, C.; Schmid, P.; Zennegg, M.; Anselmetti, F. S.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., Blast from the past: Melting glaciers as a relevant source for persistent organic pollutants. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43, 8173–8177.

Bogdal, C.; Naef, M.; Schmid, P.; Kohler, M.; Zennegg, M.; Bernet, D.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., Unexplained gonad alterations in whitefish (Coregonus spp.) from Lake Thun, Switzerland: levels of persistent organic pollutants in different morphs. Chemosphere 2008, 74, 434-440.

Bogdal, C.; Schmid, P.; Kohler, M.; Müller, C. E.; Iozza, S.; Bucheli, T. D.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., Sediment record and atmospheric deposition of brominated flame retardants and organochlorine compounds in Lake Thun, Switzerland: lessons from the past and evaluation of the present. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42, 6817-6822.

Gerecke, A.; Schmid, P.; Bogdal, C.; Kohler, M.; Zennegg, M.; Heeb, N. V., Brominated flame retardants – endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the Swiss environment. Chimia 2008, 62, 352–357.

Iozza, S.; Müller, C. E.; Bogdal, C.; Schmid, P.; Oehme, M., Historical profiles of chlorinated paraffins and polychlorinated biphenyls in a dated sediment core from Lake Thun (Switzerland). Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42, 1045-1050.

Kohler, M.; Zennegg, M.; Bogdal, C.; Gerecke, A. C.; Schmid, P.; V. Heeb, N.; Sturm, M.; Vonmont, H.; E. Kohler, H.-P.; Giger, W., Temporal trends, congener patterns, and sources of octa-, nona-, and decabromodiphenyl ethers (PBDE) and hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCD) in Swiss lake sediments. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42, 6378 - 6384.

Favre, F.; Bogdal, C.; Gavillet, S.; Stucki, J. W., Changes in the CEC of a soil smectite–kaolinite clay fraction as induced by structural iron reduction and iron coatings dissolution. Appl. Clay Sci. 2006, 34, 95-104.

conference proceedings

Bogdal, C.; Schmid, P.; Zennegg, M.; Blüthgen, N.; Anselmetti, F. S.; Heeb, N. V.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., Temporal trends of hexabromocyclododecanes in urban, rural, and remote lakes in Switzerland. Organohal. Comp. 2010.

Bogdal, C.; Nikolic, D.; Lüthi, M. P.; Schenker, U.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., Environmental chemistry meets glaciology: transport and fate of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in the Glacier and Lake Oberaar, Switzerland. Organohal. Comp. 2010.

Bogdal, C.; Schmid, P.; Zennegg, M.; Anselmetti, F. S.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., History repeats itself: Persistent organic pollutants in the glacier-fed Lake Oberaar, Switzerland. Organohal. Comp. 2009.

Bogdal, C.; Schmid, P.; Zennegg, M.; Sturm, M.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., The haunting legacy: Sediment record of persistent organic pollutants in the glacier-fed Lake Tscheppa, Switzerland. Organohal. Comp. 2009.

Bogdal, C.; Schmid, P.; Naef, M.; Zennegg, M.; Kohler, M.; Bernet, D.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., Unexplained gonad alterations in whitefish (Coregonus spp.) from Lake Thun, Switzerland: levels of persistent organic pollutants in different morphs. Organohal. Comp. 2008, 70, 141-144.

Bogdal, C.; Weber, R.; Schmid, P.; Zennegg, M., Formation of polychlorinated naphthalenes in a former Leblanc soda factory. Organohal. Comp. 2008, 70, 805-808.

Bogdal, C.; Kohler, M.; Schmid, P.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., Partitioning of polybrominated diphenyl ethers between air, water, sediment and fish in Lake Thun (Switzerland). Organohal. Comp. 2007, 69, 441-444.

Bogdal, C.; Kohler, M.; Schmid, P.; Sturm, M.; Grieder, E.; Scheringer, M.; Hungerbühler, K., Polychlorinated naphthalenes: congener specific analysis and source identification in a dated sediment core from Lake Thun, Switzerland. Organohal. Comp. 2006, 68, 300-303.