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 […]
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Oct
Oct
This week the 34th International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC 2024) took place in Liverpool. Anneli and Gordian went to check it out and share our most recent work on chromatography and beyond. Liverpool treated the researchers in chromatography with a nice, sometimes even sunny, weather and a fantastic gala dinner in the world fifth largest cathedrals. […]
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Oct
Oct
Today, on the 4th of October 2024, Amina Souihi successfully defended her PhD thesis. The opponent was Michael Witting (TU München and Helmholtz Zentrum München) and the committee members were Åsa Emmer (KTH), Giorgio Tomasi (University of Copenhagen), and Magnus Åberg (Perkin Elmer). The discussion reveled around retention time predictions, complementarity of different NTS methods, and […]
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Sep
Sep
Today Amina Souihi, the first graduating PhD student from the Kruvelab at Stockholm University, nailed her thesis alongside a practice presentation in the department. In the last five years, Amina has been working on developing machine learning methods for improving the detection and identification of chemicals with liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry in non-target screening. […]
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Sep
Sep
Recently, I had the privilege to return to my home-city of Melbourne, Australia to attend the 2024 International Mass Spectrometry Conference. My session was chaired by Prof Emma Schymanski of the University of Luxembourg, and the keynote speaker was Prof Kevin Thomas of the University of Queensland. Kevin started the session with some brilliant take […]
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Aug
Aug
The summer is finishing at Stockholm but we have had very exciting research visitors in the last weeks and a lot of exchange of new ideas. In the last weeks, we have had Prof. Juliane Hollender from Eawag visit the Department of Environmental Science, SU. This gave space for discussions of research activities on toxicity […]
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Jul
Jul
I was pleased to participate in the 9th Strasbourg Summer School in Chemoinformatics in Strasbourg, France, from June 24th to June 28th. It was an honor to be offered the opportunity to present my research, which currently focuses on evaluating the applicability of machine learning active learning workflow in environmental analytical chemistry. Facing vastly different […]
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May
May
This week we want to welcome two new students to Kruvelab: Alice Kollmitz and Lucas Ferrando Plo. Originally from Spain, Lucas recently finished his MSc degree in Germany. His objective was to elucidate the origin of anthraquinone residues in the leaves of English walnut tree (Juglans regia). In our group, he is the first of […]
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May
May
Last week I had the pleasure to present at SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting conference in the beautiful city of Sevilla. There, I shared insights of the possibility of using endocrine activity labeled molecular networking for non-target data evaluation. It was an amazing experience attending interesting talks, meeting many people who are excited about their work, and […]
On 14th/15th of March 2024 the WISE Dialogue conference took place in Göteborg in the Clarion Hotel Post, the old post office of the city. After the last conference in August 2023, the Wallenberg initiative Material Science for Sustainability again gathered material and analytical scientists from all over Sweden to initiate collaborations and exchange ideas. […]