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We offer an opportunity to join an exciting project within the Laboratory for Air Pollution / Environmental Technology at Empa, in collaboration with ETH Zurich. The four-year project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), will investigate the in-cloud scavenging processes of plastic aerosol particles through laboratory experiments that mimic their cloud ice formation processes. Your research will contribute to the fundamental understanding of the lifetime and wet deposition of plastic pollutions in the atmosphere, and to what extent, their cloud interaction abilities can regulate their life cycle and environmental impacts.
Project backgroundMicro- and nano-sized plastic particles (MPs and NPs, collectively c...