Niamh's secondment to the University of Osnabrück, Germany

Our ESR Niamh O’Connor spent in the summer of 2022 her secondment at the Institute for Mathematics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. The aim of her secondment was to develop skills in model implementation, application, and interpretation within the context of chemical risk assessment. You can read her experiences in this short report.

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February 2023

Saúl's secondment in University of Aarhus

Our ESR Saúl Monteiro Fernandes spent his secondment in May of 2022 with the Climate Stress Lab group at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He focused on exploring the combined effect of insecticides and drought in different species of springtails and learning how to process soil samples from a field experiment and identify species of Collembola. You can read his experiences in this short report.

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January 2023

Liyan at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), the Netherlands

Our ESR Liyan Xie spent her second secondment at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA). She performed a full factorial experiment of exposing Folsomia candida, and analyzed the data collected from the previous secondment at ECT. At VUA, she cooperated with other of our ESRs, Saúl Monteiro Fernandes (ESR11) and Diana Ilyaskina (ESR6). You can read her experiences in this short report.

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January 2023

Liyan and Saúl at ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH

Our ESRs Liyan Xie and Saúl Monteiro Fernandes spent joint secondment at ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Germany. During their secondment, they focused on single and mixture exposure of pesticides on an agricultural field. They learned a lot from performing a field experiment, sampling, standard laboratory testing, and good laboratory practice (GLP). You can read their joint experiences in their short report.

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January 2023

Kelsey's secondment at NIVA

Our ESR Kelsey Ng spent his secondment at Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) in Oslo, Norway. Kelsey performed a case study in collaboration with our ESR5 Simon Schmid and the involvement of other colleagues at NIVA. The study entailed evidence-mapping of an adverse outcome pathway (AOP) with the findings from the Joint Danube Survey 4 (JDS4) – bridging the determined chemical stressors to the measurable adverse outcomes at the ecological level by the selected AOP. You can read his experiences in this short report.

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January 2023

New PhD article of our ESR Chander Kant Negi

Congratulations to our ESR Chander Kant Negi for publishing his article: Replacement Flame-Retardant 2-Ethylhexyldiphenyl Phosphate (EHDPP) Disrupts Hepatic Lipidome: Evidence from Human 3D Hepatospheroid Cell Culture. Look out for it on our Twitter.

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January 2023

Elvia's secondment at ECHA

Our ESR Elvia Rufo spent six months at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki in Finland to join the team of economists of the Risk Management II Unit in ECHA’s Directorate D4. You can read his experiences in her short report.

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January 2023

Elvia’s short visit to Consulteco

Our ESR Elvia Rufo was invited for a short visit at our partner institution Consulteco (Czechia) to get a better understanding of how different companies work in the context of hazardous chemicals. You can read her experiences in her short report.