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25.06.2021
 

icroplastics are ubiquitous in the environment. Indications of the resulting risks to nature and health are numerous. Therefore, questions arise as to...

24.06.2021
 

Anya Sherman has joined EDGE as a Ph.D. student in June 2021. She will be working with Thilo Hofmann and Thorsten Hüffer to study tire wear particles...

22.06.2021
 

Urban Futures is a University of Vienna funded Research Platform striving to govern the challenges of the future of European cities. We search for an...

21.06.2021
 

We congratulate Jan Schüürman on winning a poster award at ContaSed 2021 organized by the University of Bern and its Oeschger Centre for Climate...

09.06.2021
 

Aaron Kintzi has joined EDGE as Ph.D. student in June 2021. He will work with Michael Zumstein on the biotransformation and biodegradation of...

08.06.2021
 

iodiversity loss, climate crisis, land use: Humanity is currently facing immense global challenges. Thilo Hofmann from EDGE explains why plastics...

31.05.2021
 

In order to assess the ecological risks that can arise from the use of nanomaterials, an international team of researchers and experts has developed...

27.05.2021
 

Predicting the fate of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) in soil is challenging, due to a lack of generally agreed-upon ENM-specific fate descriptors....

27.05.2021
 

Antoine Raoult joined EDGE for a 20 weeks long internship in May of 2021. He is a master student in the National Institute for Applied Science (INSA)...

26.05.2021
 

Congratulations to Ruoting Peng: She was awarded with the prestigious DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) to fund her PhD...

12.05.2021
 

Chloé Allo joined EDGE in April 2021 as a student assistant supporting Boyoung Song. She will be involved in the UBA OECD Dissolution project and will...

12.05.2021
 

Luzian Hämmerle joined EDGE in May 2021 as a student assistant for Nathalie Tepe. He is involved in the EU Horizon 2020 project Gov4Nano and will...

11.05.2021
 

Thorsten Hüffer, Senior Scientist at EDGE, was awarded the societal medal from the Society for Water Chemistry, division of the German Chemical...

10.05.2021
 

Johannes Ehrendorfer joined EDGE in March 2021 as a student assistant for Professor Hofmann. Johannes is involved in preparing project data, revising...

03.05.2021
 

There is a great need for new antibiotics to fight infections caused by resistant bacteria. In this contribution to the 2021 Junior Laureates Issue of...