News and Updates

New publication: Training the next generation of plastics pollution researchers: Tools, skills and career perspectives in a transdisciplinary field

New publication: plastics can be used more sustainably in agriculture

New publication: Eco-corona Formation on Plastics: Adsorption of Dissolved Organic Matter to Pristine and Photochemically Weathered Polymer Surfaces

Denise gives keynote lecture at Goldschmidt

New publication: Balancing new approaches and harmonized techniques in nano- and microplastics research

Denise gives keynote lecture at the Gordon Research Conference Environmental Nanotechnology

New publication: Direct measurement of microplatics by carbon-detection via single particle ICP-TOFMS in complex aqueous suspensions

New publication: Multi-generation exposure to polystyrene nanoplastics showed no major adverse effects in Daphnia magna

Denise gives keynote lecture at European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectroscopy

New publication: Extraction and concentration of nanoplastic particles from aqueous suspensions using functionalized magnetic nanoparticles and a magnetic flow cell

New publication: tracking nanoplastics in freshwater microcosms and their impacts to aquatic organisms

New publication: Short Depuration of Oysters Intended for Human Consumption is Effective at Reducing Exposure to Nanoplastics

New publication: Potential impacts of atmospheric microplastics and nanoplastics on cloud formation processes

New publication: Embrace complexity to understand microplastic pollution

New publication: Uptake, distribution and elimination of palladium-doped polystyrene nanoplastics in rainbow trout following dietary exposure

New Publication: Systematic development of extraction methods for quantitative microplastics analysis in soils using metal-doped plastics

Go girls in science! New ECAM video online

Success at the second Microplastics Workshop for Early Career Researchers

New publication: Nanoplastics Removal During Drinking Water Treatment: Laboratory- and Pilot-scale Experiments and Modeling

New publication: COST Action PRIORITY: An EU Perspective on Micro- and Nanoplastics as Global Issues

Welcome Alice Pradel, new Postdoc in ECAM

Ph D grant funded: Plastics Underground

New publication: Assessing implications of nanoplastics exposure to plants with advanced nano metrology techniques

Denise is given the Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award

Denise is awarded the James J. Morgan Early Career Award from ES&T for contributions to environmental science

New publication: Demonstrating the translocation of nanoplastics across the fish intestine using palladium-doped polystyrene in a salmon gut-sac

New publication: A sustainable future for plastics considering material safety and preserved value

New Publication: Nanoplastic Transport in Soil via Bioturbation by Lumbricus terrestris

Denise gives her ETH introductory lecture

New publication: Eathworms ingest microplastic fibers and nanoplastics with effects on egestion rate and long-term retention

Denise is awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize for Outstanding Woman Research of the Year in Switzerland!

New Publication: The analytical quest for sub-micron plastics in biological matrices

Our group has grown! Welcome to Jonathan, Alissa, Fabienne and Silja!

New publication: What is "environmentally Relevant"? A framework to advance research on the environmental fate and effects of engineered nanomaterials

2021 Summer Group Retreat in the books!

New publication: Formation of fiber fragments during abrasion of polyester textiles

New publication: metal-doping of plastics enables accurate assessment of uptake and effects on Gammarus pulex

Nanoplastic perspective published in Nature Nanotechnology

Quoted in Vogue!

Featured in ETH Zukunftsblog

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Keynote Presentation Announcement!

New Open Position!

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