Dr.-Ing. Felix Weinhardt

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsGeochemistry (Inorganic, Organic, Biological),Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
KeywordsMicrobially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitatio, Biomineralization, Chemotaxis, Porous Media, Microfluidics
Honours and awards

2026: Publication Award 2025 from the University of Stuttgart

2025: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Postdocs (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), research stay at the Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA,

2023: Publication Award 2022 from the University of Stuttgart

2014: DAAD scholarship, ISAP exchange program, University of Waterloo (8 months)

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityLeipzig
InstitutionHelmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
InstituteDepartment Technische Biogeochemie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Joseph Daniel SeymourDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2025

Programme(s)

2024Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2023Lee, Dongwon and Weinhardt, Felix and Hommel, Johannes and Piotrowski, Joseph and Class, Holger and Steeb, Holger: Machine learning assists in increasing the time resolution of {X}-ray computed tomography applied to mineral precipitation in porous media. In: Scientific Reports, 13, 2023, 10529
2022Hommel, Johannes and Gehring, Luca and Weinhardt, Felix and Ruf, Matthias and Steeb, Holger: Effects of Enzymatically Induced Carbonate Precipitation on Capillary Pressure–Saturation Relations. In: Minerals, 12, 2022,
2022Weinhardt, Felix and Deng, Jingxuan and Hommel, Johannes and Vahid Dastjerdi, Samaneh and Gerlach, Robin and Steeb, Holger and Class, Holger: Spatiotemporal distribution of precipitates and mineral phase transition during biomineralization affect porosity--permeability relationships: Microfluidic investigations. In: Transport in Porous Media, 143, 2022, 527--549
2021Weinhardt, Felix and Class, Holger and Vahid Dastjerdi, Samaneh and Karadimitriou, Nikolaos and Lee, Dongwon and Steeb, Holger: Experimental methods and imaging for enzymatically induced calcite precipitation in a microfluidic cell. In: Water Resources Research, 57, 2021, e2020WR029361
2021von Wolff, Lars and Weinhardt, Felix and Class, Holger and Hommel, Johannes and Rohde, Christian: Investigation of Crystal Growth in Enzymatically Induced Calcite Precipitation by Micro-Fluidic Experimental Methods and Comparison with Mathematical Modeling. In: Transport in Porous Media, 137, 2021, 327--343
2021Wagner, Arndt and Eggenweiler, Elissa and Weinhardt, Felix and Trivedi, Zubin and Krach, David and Lohrmann, Christoph and Jain, Kartik and Karadimitriou, Nikolaos and Bringedal, Carina and Voland, Paul and others: Permeability estimation of regular porous structures: A benchmark for comparison of methods. In: Transport in Porous Media, 138, 2021, 1--23
2021Timo Koch and Dennis Gläser and Kilian Weishaupt and Sina Ackermann and Martin Beck and Beatrix Becker and Samuel Burbulla and Holger Class and Edward Coltman and Simon Emmert and Thomas Fetzer and Christoph Grüninger and Katharina Heck and Johannes Hommel and Theresa Kurz and Melanie Lipp and Farid Mohammadi and Samuel Scherrer and Martin Schneider and Gabriele Seitz and Leopold Stadler and Martin Utz and Felix Weinhardt and Bernd Flemisch: {DuMux} 3 – an open-source simulator for solving flow and transport problems in porous media with a focus on model coupling. In: Computers \& Mathematics with Applications, 81, 2021, 423-443