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Michael Kersten (born February 14, 1956) is a scientist with research focus on environmental geochemistry. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Applied Geochemistry.

The Applied Geochemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which focuses on publication of environmental geochemistry and hydrogeology research. It was founded in 1986 by the International Association of Geochemists and is now published by Elsevier on a monthly basis. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.5.

Biography
He started his career in marine science as research assistant in 1983 at the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany.

In 1992/93 he was scientific researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology working on landfill geochemistry. In 1994 - 1997 he worked at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research at Warnemünde, Germany.

In 1997 he moved to the Johannes Gutenberg University at Mainz, Germany, and became Professor of applied geochemistry.

At the Institute of Geosciences of the University of Mainz he established a working group of hydrogeochemistry

He was teaching advanced courses on hydrogeochemistry and thermodynamic equilibrium modelling for a quarter of century until April 2022 when he became retired.

The main scientific interest of the Hydrogeochemistry Group at the University of Mainz was basic and applied research on speciation of ions and transformation of trace metals and metalloids during the biogeochemical cycle in both natural and anthropogenic environments.

Particular emphasis was on microscale process studies of contaminant retardation in mitigating groundwater pollution.

Tomographic imaging techniques were among main analytical tools including PET imaging and fast in-situ synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy experiments. This research includes also advanced data processing based on machine learning techniques.

Main emphasis was not only gathering of data sets for descriptive imaging but also use of the data for advanced reactive transport modeling in porous media.

Publications
Michael Kersten has more than 300 publications to date, among them more than 100 referenced by Google Scholar and the Web of Science.