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 second PostDoc in our group. In the following two years, he will work on case studies to demonstrate the practical utility of the models developed within our group, starting with the identification of possible risk drivers in plastic leachates.