Christian Zafiu is an Assistant Professor at the Department
of Water-Atmosphere-Environment, Institute of Waste Management and Circularity,
BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. He completed his Doctoral
studies in chemistry at the University of Vienna in 2011. Afterward, he was a post-doc
at the Department for Nanobiotechnologies, BOKU University (2011–2013), a Visiting
Researcher (post-doc) at the Institute for Electronic Chemistry, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Japan (2014), and a post-doc at the Research Center
Jülich, Deutschland Institute for Complex Systems 6 - Structural Biochemistry (2014–2018).
His research is focused on emerging pollutants, microplastic emissions from
waste management, and the investigation of value and pollutant materials in and during
the treatment of waste.
