Danilo Bertagna (ESR6) & Marina Gutiérrez (ESR11) Hi! We are Danilo Bertagna (ESR6) and Marina Gutiérrez (ESR11). In this joint blog, we would like to talk about the scientific career prospective in our countries of origin, Brazil and Spain, while working in the Faculty of Chemical...
Amit Kumar (ESR4) Why water quality in Serbia needs to improve? Hello readers! It has been almost two years being a PhD student in Belgrade. In this week’s blog, I would like to share a few pieces of information about water quality in Serbia. In the beginning, let...
Ana Paulina López (ESR2) Every time we visit different places during a holiday excursion, a study exchange, or a professional trip, we can compare the living conditions. In my case, sometimes these contrasts made me value what I had at home and other times to wish...
Join our Ph.D. student, Michele Ponzelli (ESR12), in his daily routine in the lab and discover his recipe for removing pharmaceuticals from water....
Barbara Topolovec (ESR5) & Nikoletta Tsiarta (ESR14) Hello dear readers. We are Nikoletta (ESR14) and Barbara (ESR5). Our PhD journey started a year and a half ago by working together at the ICRA institute in Girona. It didn’t take us long to find out that we...
Marina Gutierrez (ESR11) Some weeks ago, I started to work with some data from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), as part of my PhD thesis. I was working with this huge Excel file full of data on flow regimes, quality parameters, and operational conditions. The...
Edwin Antonio Chingate (ESR3) & Nebojša Ilić (ESR13) Hey everyone, We are Nebojsa and Edwin, two researchers from two sides of the world that science brought to the same place. Most days, we are sitting in our offices at the opposite sides of the same hallway (well, not...
Do you remember the last time you took antibiotics? What could have happened if you didn’t take them? Antibiotics allow us to improve our life expectancy and quality of life....
Francis dela Rosa (ESR10) Hi readers! It’s my blog contribution time again! As of this writing, I realized that we (Early Stage Researchers) are more than halfway through our journey to complete our PhD studies. Thus, I would like to summarize the lessons that I have learned...
Sabrina de Boer (ESR9) Even though NOWELTIES is a project funded by the European Union, I am currently working in Switzerland at the FHNW in Basel as part of a research secondment. Despite not being part of the EU, Basel is one of the most European...