Jes Vollertsen

Jes Vollertsen is a Professor of Environmental Engineering at Aalborg University, Denmark. His background is biological and chemical processes and pollutants in urban technical waters, mainly stormwater treatment systems and sewer systems. His research focus is on anthropogenic pollution where he the later years has worked on microplastics, here among tire wear particles. The work targets all types of matrixes, e.g. water, wastewater, sludge, biosolids, sediments, soil, biota, food, air, etcetera. His goal is to quantify sources and occurrence of environmental microplastics and address the processes behind mitigation technologies. He addresses aspects of the physical, chemical, and biological breakdown of microplastics in the environment.