Five researchers at ACES receive grants from The Swedish Research Council
The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) has decided on approved applications within natural and engineering sciences 2018. Stockholm University receives 44 grants, among them five grants go to researchers at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES). Elena Gorokhova, Professor, gets a research project grant of 2 850 000 SEK for the project “Ecological significance of hepatotoxin biodegradation: towards …
New methods to detect environmental pollutants
How can we improve the risk assessment of PAHs, a group of chemicals known to be potentially hazardous to human health? In a recently defended doctoral thesis, Hwanmi Lim at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES) presents new methods to obtain more accurate data on PAH exposure as well as the possibilities of using these data in …
Increased attention on thiamine deficiency
At the end of September, the Norwegian public service channel NRK reported about the likely connection between thiamine deficiency and mass death of seabirds. Now the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) draws attention to ACES research in the field. The Norwegian public service channel NRK reported that the population …
