Last week the 3rd National Meeting of the Swedish Chemical Society, SCS2025, took place. The conference was hosted in a wonderful venue at the Steam Hotel in beautiful Västerås. Our group was happy to participate in two oral and two poster presentations. PhD students Louise Malm and Iris Hättestrand presented posters about their ongoing research. […]
Category Archives: Research
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Jun
Jun
Today we had an absolute pleasure to host Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at Wageningen University during their PhD Group Visit. The group is on its week long science trip in Sweden – Uppsala and Stockholm – visiting several research groups. We enjoyed eight talks on analytical approaches both from Wageningen University as well as Stockholm […]
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Jun
Jun
This week I was very happy to participate in the Analytical Solutions 2025 in The Netherlands. This year’s meeting focused on Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Laboratory Technology. I had the honor to present our work on predicting toxicity and concentration form the analytical information, e.g., tandem mass spectra, with MS2Tox (Peets et al., Rahu et […]
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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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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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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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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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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 […]