We may have celebrated Helen Sepman’s PhD defense a little too hard, because somehow, nearly a month has passed before anyone thought to write about it! On May 15th, Helen successfully defended her thesis Machine Learning Tools to Identify Risk Drivers in Water, and she can now proudly go by Dr. Sepman. Professor Leon Barron […]
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Fig. 1: Landscape of the place Kiruna before mine and town existed On 23rd to 26th of March the WISE study trip to Kiruna took place. A short flight from Stockholm Arlanda to Kiruna Airport on Monday afternoon brought us to the snow covered lands of Sami, the indigenous population of northern Sweden (Fig. […]
WISE Dialogue Meeting Uppsala 17th/18th of March Fig. 1: Uppsala Konsert & Kongress From 17th to 18th of March, the WISE Dialogue Meeting in Uppsala took place high above the roofs of the old university town in the Uppsala Konsert & Kongress venue. Representatives from Myfab, the ESS and Max IV were advertising cleanroom environments […]
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Dec
Dec
This year, we’re excited to have five talented MSc candidates joining our group for their thesis work: Jake, Jacqueline, Isabelle, Ruchun, and Nikos. Instead of introducing them ourselves, we’ll let them speak for who they are — in the order they appear in the photo. I’m Jake from Maryland, USA. I have my B.Sc. in […]
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Oct
Oct
Last week, a big part of the group, including Eliise, Henrik, Helen, Frank, Gordian, Yvonne, and Anneli, went to the International Conference on Non-Target Screening (ICNTS 25) in Erding, Germany. In these four intense days full of talks, poster sessions, and fruitful conversations it was also a pleasure to (re-)connect with people from the field […]
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Sep
Sep
In the last week of August, Louise and Harry attended the SETAC Latin America 16th Biennial Meeting in Lima, Peru. The conference started off on Tuesday, August 26 with professional training courses: Louise joined Environmental Risk Assessment for Regulatory Purposes, while Harry attended Green Toxicology: Harnessing Computational Toxicology and In Vitro Techniques for Sustainability. During […]
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Jun
Jun
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. […]
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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 […]