This time we talked to Associate Professor Dr. Emma Schymanski about her work in the Environmental Cheminformatics group at LCSB (University of Luxembourg). She told us how her work is similar to a detective, she described in more detail non-targeted analysis of unknown chemicals, different databases she uses for her work and the vast and important subject of open science. She has also prepared a very special pub quiz question regarding PFAS chemicals.
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SHOW NOTES
More about Dr. Schymanski
More about LCSB (Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine)
PubChem, open database of chemical molecules and their activities
NORMAN Network - its mission being to enhance the exchange of information and collection of data on emerging environmental substances
LuxPest - pesticides in Luxembourg waters
Organic Pollutants at the International Monitoring Station of the River Rhine at Basel