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Welcome new group member: Anya Sherman

24.06.2021 EDGE

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…

Open position: PhD in Advanced Environmental Data Science

22.06.2021 EDGE

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…

Jan Schüürman wins poster award at ContaSed 2021

21.06.2021 EDGE

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

Welcome new group member: Aaron Kintzi

09.06.2021 EDGE

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

Plastic waste is not our biggest problem...

08.06.2021 EDGE

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

New publication in Nature Nanotechnology: New guidance brings clarity to environmental hazard and behaviour testing of nanomaterials

31.05.2021 EDGE

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

New publication in Environmental Science: Nano: A critical evaluation of short columns for estimating the attachment efficiency of engineered nanomaterials in natural soils

27.05.2021 EDGE

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

Welcome new group member: Antoine Raoult

27.05.2021 EDGE

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)…

Ruoting Peng awarded DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

26.05.2021 EDGE

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