Open PhD Position!
Exciting PhD opportunity in the Emmy Noether Group of Dr Florian Pohl. You can design and conduct laboratory experiments on plastic fragmentation, including the simulation of natural transport conditions in a dedicated flume system and the analysis using methods such as SEM and µ-FT-IR. Apply before 23 February! ...more
Exciting PhD Opportunity
for international PhD candidates interested in microplastics and soils or rivers! Secure a 4 year DAAD Graduate School Scholarship Programme in Christina Bogner Ecosystem Research group at the Universität zu Köln. Apply before 31 January ...more
CRC Microplastics Seminar
On 13. Januar Dr Johanna Schmidtmann will give the first CRC Insights Seminar in 2025. Her topic is "The role of heteroaggregation on the fate of microplastics in the environment". The seminar is open to the public and interested persons are warmly invited to join. 12.15 CET H33, INF/AI and Online. ...more
Dr Löder is one of the ‘Highly Cited Researchers 2024’
This is the third time he has received this special award ‘from Clarivate. It honours the 1% of scientists whose publications are cited most frequently worldwide. An overview of all SFB publications can be found in the ‘Publications’ section. ...more
Early Career Workshop 2024
The workshop ‘Navigating Towards Microplastic Regulations’ took place from 11-13 November with around 50 participants at the University of Bayreuth and was organised as a joint event by the PlasticsFatE project, the CRC 1357 Microplastics and the Federal Environment Agency. ...more
Dr Anja Ramsperger receives the Bavarian Culture Prize
For her outstanding PhD thesis "Environmental Microplastics: How the Surface Properties of Microplastic Particles Determine their Particle-Cell Interactions" in the field of biology, Dr Anja Ramsperger has been awarded the Bavarian Culture Prize. ...more
Bavarian Environmental Award 2024
for the cooperation between the CRC Microplastics and the Main River Film Festival and the Bayreuth Region Water Month. The Bavarian State Foundation has honoured them as a unique cooperation project. ...more
