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Welcome Jonas Stegmaier

We warmly welcome Jonas Stegmaier in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry. He joined the Analytical Chemistry group on 1 July 2018.

Jonas Stegmaier studied Geology with a specialisation in Geochemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany. During his master thesis he determined element and ion concentrations in river water for tracing hydrochemistry of contrasting, merging streams in South-West Germany.

At PSI, Jonas Stegmaier will be characterizing the performance of a new Inductively Coupled Plasma Time Of Flight Mass Spectrometer for trace element analysis in ice cores with the final goal to reconstruct Saharan dust transports and heavy metal pollution from metallurgy in Europe over the last 2000 years.

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Successful PhD Defense

Anna Dal Farra successfully defended her PhD at the University of Bern, entitled "Effect of light-absorbing impurities on the albedo of the Alpine glacier Plaine Morte". The project was jointly funded by the University of Bern and the Paul Scherrer Institut.

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Welcome Anthony Boucly

Join me in welcoming Anthony, our new postdoc, jointly affiliated with Markus Ammann’s Surface Chemistry group (Surface Chemistry) and within the Electrochemistry Laboratory (Laboratory of Electrochemistry), the group for Electrocatalysis and Interface headed by Prof. Thomas Schmidt under the supervision of Emiliana Fabbri.

He obtained his PhD from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics – Materials and Radiation. The title of his dissertation was “Catalytical Reactions and Environmnetal Chemistry Modifications as seen by Synchrotron Radiation NAP-XPS”. He is trained in surface chemistry and surface analysis methods.

At PSI, Anthony Boucly will be studying the electrochemical interaction between electrolytes and metal oxides relevant for electrochemical applications and for the weathering of mineral dust particles in the atmosphere with X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy at the Near Ambient Pressure Photoemission (NAPP) endstation at SLS.

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Welcome Huanyu Yang

Join me in welcoming Huanyu Yang, our new PhD student in Markus Ammann’s group.

He has a Bachelor degree in Physics and obtained his Master from the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”. The title of his dissertation was “Optical pump-terahertz probe on semiconductors” and the project task was to study the electro-optical properties of several semiconductors by constructing the time-domain and time-resolved spectroscopy with a laser (pulse duration <100 fs), both at equilibrium state and dynamical state.

At PSI, Huanyu Yang will be studying the hydrogen bonding structure at solid and aqueous interfaces with X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

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LUC climbs Furka and Grimsel

This year's excursion exposed us to high-alpine wild flowers. A guided tour on alpine plant ecology at the Alpine Research Station Furka had to be canceled in last minute, and was replaced by hiking the Grimsel area, equipped with plant ecology apps.

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Successful PhD Defense

Johannes Schindler successfully defended his PhD at the University of Bern, entitled "An Extraction System for Radiocarbon Microanalysis of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Glacier Ice". The project was jointly funded by the University of Bern and the Paul Scherrer Institut.

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Successful PhD Defense

Astrid Waldner has been awarded a PhD at the ETH Zurich for her thesis entitled, "Molecular level picture of the interaction between ice and trace gases". The project was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and lead by Thorsten Bartels-Rausch.

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Welcome Andrés Laso

We warmly welcome Andrés Laso in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry joining the Surface Chemistry group. Andrés Laso is a trained mechanic and obtained a degree as a technician in mechanical engineering. Before joining PSI, he worked at ETH for over eight years, in the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry.

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Our congratulations to Dr. Peter Alpert

Peter A. Alpert was successfully evaluated as part of the PSI-Fellow-II-3i program at the Paul Scherrer Institut. His awarded project focuses on microfabrication of a new in situ photochemical environmental reactor coupled to the X-ray microscope at the PolLux endstation located at the Swiss Light Source. We are thrilled about his success and to include his future work as part of the LUC team.

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