Major Research Issues
Research interests:
- Applicability of characterisation techniques for engineered nanomaterials in natural waters and synthetic samples
- Environmental fate of microplastics, engineered nanomaterials and other emerging pollutants
- Novel analytical techniques for analysis of emerging substances (e.g. PPCPs) and POPs (e.g. BFRs)
- New sample pretreatment and analytical techniques
- Biological methods for environmental stress (aquatic, benthic and terrestrial organisms)
- Biotic ligand modelling
- Transportation, transformation and degradation of organic contaminants in environment
- Effects of chemical mixtures
- Effect based analysis of substances (EDA, TIE)
Short Technical Description
- Modern analytical instrumentation (GC, LC, MS, MS/MS, ICP-OES, ICPMS)
- Wide range of equipment and methods for environmental chemistry (organic and inorganic)
- Equipment for characterisation of microplastics (FTIR microscope and FPA-µFTIR) and nanomaterials (DLS, LDEP, UV-Vis, ICP-MS)
- Infrastructure for testing ecotoxicity (e.g. nanomaterials)
Accredited testing laboratory T003 (EN ISO/IEC 17025).
Recognised as the national reference laboratory in the environmental field in Finland.
Accredited proficiency testing provider PT01 (EN ISO/IEC 17043).
Options And Conditions
Access subject to joint interests/projects as well as time and funding constraints.
Unit Cost Of Use
No cost of basic infrastructure. Funding for labour costs, travels and special consumables needed.
Contact Content
Dr. Markus Sillanpää
markus.sillanpaa@syke.fi
Dr. Katarina Björklöf
katarina.bjorklof@syke.fi