Dr. Jenna Poonoosamy

Jenna Poonoosamy is a physico-chemist and radiochemist and Head of the Reactive Transport Team at Forschungszentrum Jülich (IFN-2). Her research focuses on coupled hydro-geochemical processes in porous media, with particular emphasis on water-mineral interactions controlling the mobility of contaminants and radionuclides in the subsurface.
She studied Molecular Physical Chemistry at Université Paris-Saclay / ENS Paris-Saclay and holds a joint master’s degree in Nuclear Energy with a specialization in radiochemistry. She carried out her PhD research at the Paul Scherrer Institut and obtained her doctoral degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Bern in 2016. Her work is relevant to nuclear waste disposal, CO₂ sequestration, hydrogen storage, and geothermal systems. She received an ERC Starting Grant in 2022 for the project GENIES and the 2024 Nuclear Chemistry Division Award of the German Chemical Society (GDCh).
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