Scientific Highlights
Machine learning helps refine aerosol measurement characterization
Machine learning, applied to year-long observations from the Zeppelin Observatory on Svalbard, was capable of refining aerosol chemical characterization specifically those measured with state-of-the-art mass spectrometric techniques.
Pollution due aux avions
Des scientifiques du PSI ont mesuré l’impact qu’a le trafic aérien à l’aéroport de Zurich sur la concentration de particules ultrafines dans l’air. Ce faisant, ils ont également découvert des composés d’huile de lubrification.
Les causes du smog à Sarajevo ont été identifiées
Le bois, le charbon et les émanations de cuisine sont les principales sources du smog intense qui règne sur la capitale de Bosnie-Herzégovine. Tel est le résultat d’une campagne globale de mesures mobiles menée par des scientifiques du PSI.
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Swiss–Romanian Research & Innovation Partnership Under the Second Swiss Contribution
The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), through its Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC), is contributing its scientific expertise to the Research & Innovation thematic area of the Swiss–Romanian Cooperation Programme under the Second Swiss Contribution, financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
Preparing the Future of PSI Large Facilities in Atmospheric Research
The Multiphase Chemistry Group in the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC) looks back to a nearly 20 years record of activities with in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and in situ scanning transmission X-ray spectromicroscopy (STXM) to address key fundamental questions in atmospheric chemistry. This is the time to consider new horizons, align with current and future needs in atmospheric sciences, and to identify novel opportunities driven by upcoming trends in methods, technologies and facilities. This has been the topic of the Workshop ‘X-ray and Neutron Spectroscopy, Scattering and Imaging in Atmospheric Chemistry’, held at PSI 13 – 15 November 2024.
Deciphering the Skies: Lubna Dada receives Ambizione grant funding for "BioPSI" Atmospheric Research Project
Lubna Dada, Scientist at the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC) at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) was granted the Ambizione Grant 2023 with her project “Biological Particle Sources and Impact (BioPSI)”. Lubna’s journey of her visionary research project “BioPSI” is set to commence in January 2024, with the anticipation of welcoming a PhD student into the project.