Research area Environmental Science

Aerosols, Clouds and Climate

To understand the trajectories of the changing climate, much of our current research focuses on atmospheric particulate matter, a key component of the Earth's energy budget.

Air Quality and Human Health

Acquiring the knowledge for maintaining and improving air quality is one of the critical environmental challenges of the future as it is estimated that poor air quality causes several million premature deaths each year.

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

The atmosphere is a multi-phase system, with solids, liquids and gases existing and constantly interacting.

Contaminant Risk Assessment and Management

To further improve chemical safety, we investigate how exposure and effect data are used for agency decision-making and we develop novel approaches to facilitate the use of scientific data in regulatory risk assessment and risk management.

Effects Assessment of Contaminants

To improve the understanding of how chemicals and other environmental exposures of emerging concern can impact living organisms we investigate their effects, from the molecular level up to the functioning of entire ecosystems.

Environmental and Human Exposure for Contaminants

We study how chemicals enter the environment, how they are transported, where they accumulate, how they are removed from the environment, and quantify the different pathways of contaminant exposure to wildlife and humans.

Environmental Impacts of Agriculture and Aquaculture

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Fate and Effects of Toxic Substances in the Environment

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Fisheries – Interactions with the Ecosystem

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Land-use Effects on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Natural resources and sustainability

Our researchers and projects focus on how people utilise different environments and natural resources, and how this affects the surrounding landscape and ecosystems.

Nexus of Air Pollution and Climate Change

The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP; northern Pakistan, N. India and Bangladesh) as well as the eastern corridor of China are two examples of hotspot regions with massive anthropogenic effects on public health and climate with a myriad of cascading effects on other environmental systems.

Nutrients and Eutrophication

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Permafrost-biogeochemistry-climate Interactions

The Arctic is warming 3-4 times faster than the global average and already now shows rapid thaw of land and subsea permafrost, vegetation shifts, increased coastal erosion, sea ice decline and changes in ocean currents.