Dr. Daniele Scheres Firak
 

Leibniz Institute for

Tropospheric Research

Permoserstraße 15

04318 Leipzig

 

Phone: +49 341 2717-7439

Mail: firak@tropos.de

Room: 1.16 (Geb. 23.6)

 

Function:

Scientist

 

Department:

Atmospheric Chemistry Deaprtment

 

Research areas & research interest:

My core research interest is elucidating complex chemical kinetics and reaction pathways across soil, water, and atmospheric compartments using advanced ESR spin-trapping techniques. 

 

Publications:

EPR spectroscopy:

  • Scheres Firak, D., Schaefer, T., Yang, B., Jibaja Valderrama, O., van Pinxteren, M., & Herrmann, H. (2026). Coupling Aqueous Phase Chemical Actinometry with EPR Spectroscopy: An Approach for Probing Photochemical Processes at the Air–Sea Interface. ChemPhysChem, 27(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202500734
  • Schneider, J. T., Firak, D. S., Ribeiro, R. R., & Peralta-Zamora, P. (2020). Use of scavenger agents in heterogeneous photocatalysis: truths, half-truths, and misinterpretations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22(27), 15723–15733. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cp02411b

 

Atmospheric Chemistry:

  • Scheres Firak, D., Schaefer, T., Ali, M., & Herrmann, H. (2026). Atmospheric chemistry: from the gas phase to the multiphase system. ChemTexts, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40828-026-00226-w
  • Scheres Firak, D., Schaefer, T., Kula, C., Taherkhani, N., & Herrmann, H. (2025). Ionic Strength Effect in Fenton Reactions in the Presence of Sulfate and Its Influence on the Aqueous Particle Phase. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00362
  • Scheres Firak, D., Schaefer, T., Senff, P., Cheng, P., Sarakha, M., Brigante, M., Mailhot, G., & Herrmann, H. (2025). Fenton-like Reactions in Acidic Environments: New Mechanistic Insights and Implications to Atmospheric Particle-Phase Chemistry. ACS ES&T Air, 2(7), 1315–1325. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestair.5c00077
  • Cheng, P., Mailhot, G., Sarakha, M., Voyard, G., Scheres Firak, D., Schaefer, T., Herrmann, H., & Brigante, M. (2025). The effect of amino acids on the Fenton and photo-Fenton reactions in cloud water: unraveling the dual role of glutamic acid. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25(19), 12087–12100. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-12087-2025

 

 

Advanced Oxidation Processes:

  • Firak, D. S., Farkas, L., Náfrádi, M., & Alapi, T. (2022). Degradation of chlorinated and hydroxylated intermediates in UVA/ClO2 systems: A chlorine-based advanced oxidation process investigation. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 10(3), 107554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2022.107554
  • Náfrádi, M., Veréb, G., Firak, D. S., & Alapi, T. (2022). Photocatalysis: Introduction, Mechanism, and Effective Parameters. In Green Photocatalytic Semiconductors. Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology (pp. 3–31). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77371-7_1
  • Santos, A., Firak, D. S., Emmel, A., Siedlecki, K., Lopes, A., & Peralta-Zamora, P. (2018). Evaluation of the Fenton process effectiveness in the remediation of soils contaminated by gasoline: Effect of soil physicochemical properties. Chemosphere, 207, 154–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.05.087
  • Firak, D. S., Orth, E. S., & Peralta-Zamora, P. (2018). Unraveling the sigmoidal profiles in Fenton catalysis: Toward mechanistic elucidation. Journal of Catalysis, 361, 214–221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2018.01.031
  • Scheres Firak, D., Rocha Ribeiro, R., de Liz, M. V., & Peralta-Zamora, P. (2018). Investigations on iron leaching from oxides and its relevance for radical generation during Fenton-like catalysis. Environmental Earth Sciences, 77(4), 117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-018-7274-0

 

Scholarly Profiles:

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3127-9134

Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations

Research Gate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniele_Firak