Biography
Dr Henning Prommer studied Civil Engineering at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). After obtaining his PhD from the Centre for Water Research at the University of Western Australia, he held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Tűbingen (Germany) and Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). In 2005 he joined CSIRO Land and Water Australia. Since 2011 he holds a joint appointment as a Winthrop Research Professor at the University of Western Australia and as a Principal Research Scientist and Team Leader in CSIRO's Environmental Contaminant Mitigation and Technologies Program. His main expertise and research interests are (i) the development and application of reactive transport models to water quality issues in porous media, in particular the quantification of redox processes and the associated fate of organic and inorganic pollutants such as uranium and arsenic at both the laboratory- and field-scale (ii) understanding and quantifying coupled transport and (bio)geochemical processes induced by managed aquifer recharge techniques such as aquifer storage and recovery (iii) numerical modelling of spatial and temporal variations of isotope signatures and environmental tracers in natural and contaminated aquifers and (iv) reactive transport processes under variable density conditions.
Professional Areas
Current Roles
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CSIRO Land and Water
Principal Research Scientist -
University of Western Australia
Winthrop Research Professor
Academic Qualifications
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1999
PhD
Centre for Water Research, University of Western Australia -
1989
Dipl.-Ing
Dept. Civil Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Professional Experiences
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1990-1994
Consulting Civil Engineer
Ingenieur Geologisches Institut IGI Niedermeyer GmbH -
1999-2001
Research Associate
Contaminated Land and Remediation Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK -
2002-2002
Research Associate
Centre for Applied Geoscience, University of Tubingen, Germany -
2002-2005
Research Fellow
Delft University of Technology -
2005-now
Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO Land and Water -
2011-now
Winthrop Research Professor
University of Western Australia, School of Earth Sciences
ORCID 0000-0002-8669-8184