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Univ-Prof. Dr. Nina Maria Huittinen

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Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Radiochemistry

Professor, Radiation Safety Officer

Address
Fabeckstr. 34-36
Room V104
14195 Berlin
Office
Email
nina.huittinen (at) fu-berlin.de

University of Helsinki (2002-2007)
Studium M.Sc.

University of Helsinki (2008-2013)
Dissertation on interactions of trivalent actinoids at mineral-water interfaces with Prof. Dr. J. Lehto

Institute of Resource Ecology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (2013-2016)
Postdoc on spectroscopic investigations of monazite matrices to immobilize actinoids with Prof. Dr. T. Stumpf

Institute of Resource Ecology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (2016-2024)
Senior Scientist and Junior Group Leader on incorporation in solid phases

Freie Universität Berlin (04/2023-04/2024)
Guest Professor in Radiochemistry

Freie Universität Berlin (seit 05/2024)
Univ.-Professor, Group Leader of Radiochemistry


Areas of Research

Adsorption of actinoids on solid-water-interfaces and their complex formation reactions in solution using inorganic ligands.

Structure and properties of crystalline solids for current and future applications in the nuclear fuel cycle, such as ceramic waste forms for immobilisation of radioactive waste streams.

Focus on the use of various spectrsocopic techniques including luminescense spectroscopy X-ray absorption spectrocopy.

ORCID

0000-0002-9930-2329

Selected Publications

  • S. E. Gilson, J. Marquardt, J. Niessen, V. Svitlyk, A. A. Bukaemskiy, G. L. Murphy, S. Akhmadaliev, H. Lippold, T. Lender, L. Peters, T. Tonnessen, C. Hennig, N. Huittinen (2024) Microstructural Investigation of Eu-Doped LaPO4 Single Crystals and Ceramics Irradiated with Au Ions, npj Mater. Degr. 8:83, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41529-024-00504-3
  • G. L. Murphy, R. Gericke, S. Gilson, E. F. Bazarkina, A. Rossberg, P. Kaden, R. Thümmler, M. Klinkenberg, M. Henkes, P. Kegler, V. Svitlyk, J. Marquardt, T. Lender, C. Hennig, K. O. Kvashina, N. Huittinen (2023) Deconvoluting Cr States in Cr-Doped UO2 Nuclear Fuels via Bulk and Single Crystal Spectroscopic Studies, Nat. Commun. 14, 2455, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38109-0

  • N. Huittinen, S. Virtanen, A. Rossberg, M. Eibl, S. Lönnrot, R. Polly (2022) A combined extended x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy and density functional theory study of americium vs. yttrium adsorption on corundum (α‑Al2O3), Minerals, 12, 1380, https://doi.org/10.3390/min12111380

  • N. Huittinen, I. Jessat, F. Réal, V. Vallet, S. Starke, M. Eibl, N. Jordan (2021) Revisiting the complexation of Cm(III) with aqueous phosphates: what can we learn from the complex structures using luminescence spectroscopy and ab initio simulations? Inorg. Chem. 60, 10656−10673, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01319

  • M. Eibl, S. Shaw, D. Prieur, A. Rossberg, M. C. Wilding, C. Hennig, K. Morris, J. Rothe, T. Stumpf, N. Huittinen (2020) Understanding the local structure of Eu3+ and Y3+ stabilized zirconia – Insights from luminescence and X–ray absorption spectroscopic investigations, J. Mater. Sci. 55, 10095–10120, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-04768-3

  • T. Philipp, S. Shams, A. Rossberg, N. Huittinen, K. Schmeide, T. Stumpf (2019) U(VI) sorption on Ca–bentonite at (hyper)alkaline conditions – Spectroscopic investigation of retention mechanisms, Sci. Total Environ. 676, 469–481, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.274

  • N. Huittinen, A. C. Scheinost, Y. Ji, P. M. Kowalski, A. Wilden, Y. Arinicheva, S. Neumeier, T.  Stumpf (2018) A Spectroscopic and Computational Study of Cm3+ Incorporation in Lanthanide Phosphate Rhabdophane (LnPO4·0.67H2O) and Monazite (LnPO4), Inorg. Chem. 57, 6252–6265, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b00095

  • O. Elo, K. Müller, A. Ikeda–Ohno, F. Bok, A. C. Scheinost, P. Hölttä, N. Huittinen (2017) Batch sorption and spectroscopic speciation studies of neptunium uptake by montmorillonite and corundum. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 198, 168–181, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.10.040

  • N. Huittinen, Y. Arinicheva, M. Schmidt, S. Neumeier, T. Stumpf (2016) Using Eu3+ as an atomic probe to investigate the local environment in LaPO4–GdPO4 monazite end–members. J. Colloid Interf. Sci. 483, 139–145, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2016.08.027