Technical Consultant for Environmental Issues
Chemist · Crystallographer
GfBU-Consult GmbH
Technische Universität Berlin
Dr. Dennis Wiedemann
Born in Northern Germany, staying in Berlin. Graduated from Freie Universität Berlin, awarded a doctorate by Technische Universität Berlin. Furthering inorganic chemistry and crystallography, furthered by Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Regulation of chemicals and immission control. Scientific mindset and service-oriented work ethics.
Skills
Immission control procedures (BImSchG, BImSchV)
IED Baseline Reports (AZB)
Procedures for water resources (WHG, AwSV)
Chemicals / Hazardous substances (REACH, CLP)
Structure determination of single crystals / powders
X-ray/Neutron diffraction
Synthesis of inorganic solids/molecules
Programming (Python/Fortran)
Lectures (Bachelor’s and Master’s level)
University seminars
Lab courses
Career
Educational · Professional
- Licensing procedures according to the German Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG)
- IED Baseline Reports on the State of Soil and Groundwater (AZB)
- Permit and approval procedures according to the German Federal Water Act (WHG)
- Handling of hazardous substances and European chemical regulations
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) und Prior Assessment according to the German Environmental Impact Assessment Act (UVPG)
- X-ray diffraction at single crystals
- Analysis of modulated crystal structures
- X-ray and neutron diffraction at powders and single crystals
- Ion conduction in solids
- Synthesis of ionic solids
- Degree: PhD (Doktor der Naturwissenschaften, Dr. rer. nat.)
- PhD thesis: “Make One of Naught—Switchable Complexes of Novel Pyridine-Based Podands”
- Final grade: “summa cum laude”
- Degree: Master of Science (M.Sc.)
- Master’s thesis: “Polynuclear Gold(I) Complexes with Aurophilic Interactions: Steps Towards Supramolecular Compounds” (Prof. P. W. Roesky)
- Final grade: “very good (1.0)”
- Degree: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
- Bachelor’s thesis: “Reduction of Organic Substrates Using Lanthanoid(II) Complexes: Approaches Towards Substitution of the System Samarium Diiodide / HMPA” (Prof. P. W. Roesky)
- Final grade: “excellent (1.2)”
Qualifications
Certificates · Scholarships
- Compilation and verification of safety data sheets according to Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 (REACH)
- Permit for supplying or making toxic, organotoxic, or CMR substances/mixtures available to a third party
- Coordinator for modern management of hazardous substances
- Operation of facilities for handling substances hazardous to water
- Teaching for University’s Best
- Planning and Facilitating Processes of Teaching and Learning
- Lectures Stimulating Learning and Mass Events Bringing Students into Action
- Classic Media in Teaching and Learning Processes
- Moodle for Beginners
- Lectures with “Asking the Audience”
- Designing Fair Oral Examinations
- Diversity for Teaching (e.g., Gender and Inclusion)
- Intercultural Competences at University
- Copyright and Teaching at Universities
- Teaching Portfolio: Philosophy and Concept
- Integrated Research Training Group “Molecules at Surfaces”
- Collaborative Research Centre 658 “Elementary Processes in Molecular Switches at Surfaces”
Publications
Contact
Should you have any questions concerning my work as a scientist or a consultant, please feel free to contact me!