A perfect way to roll into the weekend: ETH Bachelors field trip to sample microplastics in Lake Zurich and look at how drinking water treatment plants can remove these particles. Such a curious and motivated group - makes me happy to be teaching these environmental scientists 😍

Successful trip to Geneva, with a demonstration by The Sea Cleaners with their boat collecting plastic pollution and a panel discussion bringing facts and challenges to policy makers and business leaders - great opportunity for science communication!

eDNA and microplastics, two ubiquitous particles in our environment. How do they interact?

Find out more on the mechanisms of environmental DNA adsorption onto microplastics in our newest publication, were you can find the full text here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

A small reminder to get your abstracts submitted for the Microplastics Workshop for Early Career Researchers! The deadline is less than a month away, and we're looking forward to seeing you there! Get more information at: microplasticsworkshop.com

Last Friday was super nice in Sion for the yearly Swiss Microplastics meeting! So much going on to understand and minimize plastics pollution and impacts in CH! (And, a wicked fun time at the Apero+ with ECAM team too 😉)

Super cool research being lead by alice.pradel in the ECAM group highlighted by ETH (OK, I'm done with the puns for now 😉)

Back to the roots: happy to have spent the day at Empa for a special research seminar, which happened to be the first real spring day of the year! 🌺 🌼 Thanks Tanja Zimmermann for hosting!

Great time speaking at the IUPAC Global Women’s Breakfast - super turnout (of women and men) for catalyzing diversity in science. Bonus: getting to speak with Lyndsey Hendriks TOFWERK, thanks for the invite Laura Hendriks!

Some exciting news: new project funded entitled 'Developing a framework for micro- and nanoplastics sampling and extraction from soil'! Very much looking forward to improving and optimizing the analytical chain with Sam Cusworth Ph.D. - it will be a great to welcome him in Zurich soon!

A pretty neat word cloud generator for your research interests based on Google Scholar - I think it's pretty accurate in my case 😉 scholargoggler.com

A few full and exciting days in Bayreuth - lots of interesting chats on so many cool projects! Thanks again for SFB 1357 Mikroplastik for hosting my visit!

And finally I get the opportunity to visit Bayreuth! Very much looking forward to all the fun and exciting discussions in the very near future!

Get ready and get excited! More info coming soon on the next iteration of the Microplastics Workshop happening September 8 - 13! :)

After a few intensive weeks at work, very happy to spend some (snowy and cold) days hiking around the Jura 😍 the mountains and fresh air are always refreshing