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Karin Tonderski

Senior Associate Professor

My research focuses on recycling of nutrients, circular fertilizers and biogas solutions, and actor collaboration regarding those topics. I also have in-depth knowledge about wetlands for eutrophication control. 

Publications

2024

Axel Lindfors, Mats Eklund, Anna Brunzell, Erik Erjeby, Tomas Hirsch, Jonas Ammenberg, Stephanie Cordova, Roozbeh Feiz, Marcus Gustafsson, Maria Johansson, Emma Lindkvist, Thomas Prade, Anna Schnürer, Karin Tonderski, Sepehr Shakeri Yekta (2024) Världens bästa biogassystem: Ett BRC innovationsprojekt
Hanna Zanatta, Wisdom Kanda, Karin Tonderski (2024) Biogas production in Brazil: Barriers and strategies for overcoming them
Jan-Olof Drangert, Karin Tonderski (2024) Greening urban sanitation: A way back to recycle urban-derived organic waste to food production CITY AND ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS, Vol. 23, Article 100149 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Giacomo Carraro, Roozbeh Feiz, Karin Tonderski, Alex Enrich Prast (2024) Unaccounted energy saving from the nitrogen output of biogas plants Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 209, Article 107768 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Giacomo Carraro, Karin Tonderski, Alex Enrich Prast (2024) Solid-liquid separation of digestate from biogas plants: A systematic review of the techniques' performance Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 356, Article 120585 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Polina Skvortsova, Iryna Ablieieva, Karin Tonderski, Yelizaveta Chernysh, Leonid Plyatsuk, Iryna Sipko, Hanna Mykhno (2024) Synergetic Effect of Digestate Dissolved Organic Matter and Phosphogypsum Properties on Heavy Metals Immobilization in Soils Journal of Engineering Sciences, Vol. 11, p. H9-H20 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

Urban Agriculture as Blue-green Infrastructure

Urban agriculture is increasing in popularity but is understudied in terms of nutrients. This project fills part of this knowledge gap by looking at food gardens and nutrient cycling in Linköping.
Biogas fueled car at the fueling station.

Biogas Solutions Research Center

BSRC is a national competence center for biogas research administered by the LiU. It's base for the development of innovative and resource-efficient biogas solutions often with positive local and regional effects on the environment and the economy.

Teaching

Undergraduate education

I teach topics related to the natural science underlying a variety of environmental problems, but also ways of mitigating those and move towards a more sustainable society. Specifically, I teach in the courses TKMJ24 Environmental Engineering, TKMJ57 Environmental Technology Solutions, and TKMJ51 Corporate Sustainability Managment. I supervise and review Bachelor theses in the program Energy and Environmental Engineering, and am happily supervising and examining Master-projects in the field of environmental engineering and sustainable development, preferably with a systems perspective.

PhD education

Within the Biogas Solutions Research Center, we do PhD education and every year we run the PhD candidate course Biogas solutions, and I teach a section about digestate and biofertilisers management. This course aims at creating a broad understanding and knowledge about the development of biogas solutions, from process technology and biochemical processes to biogas in a systems perspective, societal effects and preconditions for implementation. All lectures are also offered as a lecture series open for those that want to learn more about biogas solutions without participating in the entire course. You can read more about the course here.

News

Two young women collecting samples in a urban garden in front of city houses.

Urban agriculture – is it all good?

Many cities are seeing an increasing interest for homegrown food. But researchers want to find out: is there also a downside to urban agriculture in the shape of nutrient loss to waterways?
researchers taking water samples on an allotment.

Urban agriculture pros and cons studied by researchers

It is becoming increasingly popular to grow food in cities. But how much nutrients do vegetables need? Can superfluous nutrients end up in the water? A research project led by Geneviève Metson look into different aspects of urban agriculture.
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Collaboration with South Africa to focus on global issues

A new Swedish collaboration with South Africa is to strengthen global research issues and make it easier for researchers to contact each other. Research collaboration in fields such as the climate, medical care and education is planned.

Organisation

Environmental Technology and Management

Environmental Technology and Management (MILJÖ)

Division of Environmental Technology and Management is a research and education environment at the Department of Management and Engineering. We turn environmental problems into opportunities.
Campus Valla overview.

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.
Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

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