On the 18th and 19th of March, the 2nd Nordic Conference on Computational Chemistry was held in Gothenburg. The conference program was diverse and included many engaging talks focused on machine learning tools and approaches used in drug development. Although our group primarily focuses on environmental contaminants, we found many of the presentations and discussions […]
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Mar
Mar
Frank holds a PhD in environmental assessment with a specialization in environmental chemistry from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala. After his previous work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre Hereon in his home country Germany, where he was part of the P-LEACH project (https://www.ufz.de/p-leach/), he has now started a […]
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Mar
Mar
From the 4th to the 7th of March, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie held its annual meeting. This year, the conference took place in the picturesque old town of Göttingen, Germany. I was delighted to participate and present our recent work in a keynote talk titled “Detection and Identification of Toxic and High-Risk Chemicals with […]
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Mar
Mar
With spring slowly approaching in Stockholm, we are happy to welcome (back) some new (and not new) people to our group, namely Felipe, Marius and Ellinor. Felipe, who is from Brazil, is currently taking the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry Master’s programme from University of Tartu, spending his first semester of the second year at Uppsala […]
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Feb
Feb
We are very happy to welcome Anton Wällstedt and Kanthee Prathan (shown in the picture) who will be doing their BSc theses in our group this semester. Anton’s project revolves around chemicals that can potentially leach from food packaging to the food. More precisely, he will investigate how well MS2Quant can predict the ionization efficiency, […]
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Dec
Dec
Last Wednesday, on the 11th of December, Louise and Wei-Chieh (Harry) had their PhD half-time seminar presentations. The aim of the half-time seminar is to give an overview of the already done work but also to discuss the research planned for the second part of their PhD studies. Louise’s presentation was titled “Quantification Approaches for […]
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Dec
Dec
November 15, 2024 Copenhagen To conclude their course and earn their certificates, Harry and Yvonne traveled to Copenhagen to participate in a mini-conference organized by the Visualize Your Science framework. The event focused on the art of visual storytelling, exploring effective ways to communicate research visually, and offered constructive feedback on scientific posters presented […]
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Oct
Oct
NORMAN Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for environmental monitoring, assessment and prioritisation of chemicals and their mixtures Leipzig, Germany: 21.-22.10.2024 Last week, Anneli, Harry, Henrik, Ida, Louise and Yvonne attended an AI workshop hosted by the Norman network at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig. On the first day, researchers presented their […]
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Oct
Oct
We’re happy to have Lisa join us for a two-month research stay, running until mid-December! With the support of Anneli, Harry, Helen, and Louise, Lisa will be diving into an exciting project: setting up novel, fully automated strategies for selecting surrogate internal standards. Lisa is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Vienna in […]
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Oct
Oct
New term, new people. Welcome Eliise, Iris, and Simon to the team! Eliise is from Estonia and will be doing her postdoc with us. Her project will focus on the analysis of lignin, a by-product of the paper industry that can be used for the production of novel biomaterials. The project combines the development of […]