Water and soil protection, anthropogenic nutrients and pollutants, management of urban water and nutrient flows, closing anthropogenic nutrient cycles.

Biogeochemical processes in natural and technical systems, control mechanisms, transformation of biogeochemical binding forms, exchange processes at interfaces, interactions of biogeochemical cycles

Environmental analysis, combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, establishing analytical methods

Peer-reviewed articles

Scholtysik, G., Heinrich, L., Arz, H.W., Moros, M., Gonsiorczyk, T., Thiel, V., Hupfer, M., 2026. Iron focusing and sulphur-driven mineral formation regulate phosphorus sequestration in Lake Stechlin (NE Germany). Biogeochemistry 169, 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-026-01347-7

Praetz, S., Schlesiger, C., Motz, D.A., Klimke, S., Jahns, M., Gottschalk, C., Heinrich, L., Heppke, E.M., Malzer, W., Renz, F., Vogt, C., Kanngießer, B., 2025. Can laboratory-based XAFS compete with XRD and Mössbauer spectroscopy as a tool for quantitative species analysis? Critical evaluation using the example of a natural iron ore. PLoS One 20, e0323678. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323678

Heinrich L., Dietel J. und Hupfer M., 2023. Eisendosierungen zur Phosphorretention in Seesedimenten. Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft 2023/4, 236–243. https://doi.org/10.3243/kwe2023.04.002  zur Open Access Publikation

Heinrich, L., Schmieder, P., Barjenbruch, M. and Hupfer, M., 2023. Formation of vivianite in digested sludge and its controlling factors in municipal wastewater treatment. Science of The Total Environment 854, 158663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158663

Heinrich, L., Dietel, J. and Hupfer, M., 2022. Sulphate reduction determines the long-term effect of iron amendments on phosphorus retention in lake sediments. Journal of Soils and Sediments 22(1), 316-333. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-021-03099-3

Heinrich, L., Rothe, M., Braun, B. and Hupfer, M., 2021. Transformation of redox-sensitive to redox-stable iron-bound phosphorus in anoxic lake sediments under laboratory conditions. Water Research 189, 116609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116609

Ladwig, R., Heinrich, L., Singer, G. and Hupfer, M., 2017. Sediment core data reconstruct the management history and usage of a heavily modified urban lake in Berlin, Germany. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 24(32), 25166-25178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0191-z

Publications without peer-review

Meyer, U., Heinrich, L., 2018. Baubegleitender Bodenschutz für nachhaltiges Pflanzenwachstum. TerraTech 4/2018, 12-15.