– By Ville Nenonen – This blog post was originally meant to tell my experiences during my secondment at Utrecht University at October 2022. During the secondment, I had the plan to present my work at the Utrecht University and at the Wageningen University. However, due to catching Covid-19, I had to stay most of…

Hi, I’m Rouven and in this blog I report about my second secondment at the research institute eawag by Zurich, Switzerland. Before the stay? The secondment started already way before the actual stay, back home at the university of Vienna. We tried to synthesize vivianite (a phosphate mineral I’m working with) this time not as…

Hi, here is Rouven (ESR10), and in this blog I will tell you a bit about my final secondment at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Wageningen University In October 2022 time has come to start my final secondment – this time in the Netherlands at Wageningen university. The Wageningen university started roughly 100 years ago…

I am very grateful for this experience in the P-TRAP project, I could work together with very interesting people I can now call friends and learned a lot about diffuse source phosphorous transport. On this blog I want to share a snapshot of each chapter of my thesis while I am also searching for the…

The most challenging type of presentation is the short one! Describing your science and what you want to achieve is much easier if you have a lot of time to explain. Bringing it to the point, and more challenging explaining it e.g. to someone who has no clue what you are doing, is the supreme…

Learning to do 16S DNA analysis at Manchester University  As good geochemists, Melanie and Karel know the chemical reactions in their lake sediments very well. But if life did not exist, the dynamics of iron and phosphorus in any natural system would be very different from what we see now as the microbial community plays…

Hi, I’m Rouven and in this blog I want to report about my secondment at Fertiberia – or better with Fertiberia, since the pandemic kept me away from visiting Fertiberia in Spain in person. Instead we tried our best, improvising a remote secondment here in Vienna. What is Fertiberia? Fertiberia is not only a non-academic…

This -in my understanding quite philosophical sentence- is a very nice symbol of what was offered in our training courses about “what comes next after a PhD”. Finalising this huge personal project is a challenge, it is exciting, but it can also be frightening when something familiar ends after several years. It is a kind…

Hello everyone! I am Oleksandr Bolielyi, and I’m glad to greet you in the new blog post of P-TRAP. Today I will tell you the story of my secondment at Aquaminerals in May-July 2021 in the Netherlands, and how it was managed at this difficult time. I hope that you will enjoy it! From the start it was…

I am Ville, working at Eawag in Switzerland. My work revolves around the oxidation of iron in the presence of phosphate and numerous other solutes and how they all together affect the structure and phosphate binding capabilities of iron solids. In this blog, I would like to share some of my experiences during my P-TRAP…