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Welcome new group member: Martina Vršanská

12.10.2021 EDGE

Dr. Martina Vrsanska, Head of The Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Enzymology (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in…

Welcome new group member: Paulina Pfisterer

11.10.2021 EDGE

Paulina Pfisterer joined EDGE in September 2021 to support our administrative team – she will be responsible for organizing the lecture series,…

New research project on biodegradation of water-soluble polymers

07.10.2021 EDGE

Water-soluble polymers are used in numerous home and personal care products and they thereby enter wastewater streams. Despite their widespread use,…

New publication in Environmental Technology & Innovation: Wood ash amended biochar for the removal of lead, copper, zinc and cadmium from aqueous solution

07.10.2021 EDGE

Heavy metals from motorway runoff enter waterways causing high levels of contamination. In this study, Sampriti Chaudhuri, Gabriel Sigmund and Thilo…

Welcome new group member: Lorenzo Sanjuan

04.10.2021 EDGE

I’m Lorenzo Sanjuan, PhD student from MINTOTA Research Group of University of Valencia. I am going to do my research stay for three months in EDGE…

Pre-Opening Event at the UBB

26.09.2021 CeMESS

CMESS employees celebrated the move to the University of Vienna Biology Building (UBB) with a soft opening event on September 23rd: The Rectorate and…

Microplastics and nanoplastics barely enhance contaminant mobility in agricultural soils

17.09.2021 EDGE

A new study by EDGE researchers rejects a widespread assumption: Nano- and microplastics that end up on farmland through compost, sewage sludge or the…

Pollution of our water resources and the climate crisis

07.09.2021 EDGE

Cities need to prepare for heat and heavy rain more effectively: Environmental geoscientist Thilo Hofmann argues for replacing the gray infrastructure…

Welcome new group member: Carlotta Carlini

03.09.2021 EDGE

Carlotta Carlini has joined EDGE as a visiting Ph.D. student from the Environmental and Management Research Group (UNIBO) at Bologna University in…