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At O-2 we celebrated the addition of a new research infrastructure - the Orbitrap mass spectrometer and renovated laboratories - with a ceremonial opening.

The Department of Environmental Sciences has acquired new infrastructural equipment that will enable detailed analysis of harmful substances in the environment, food, and biological samples. 

The achievement entitled "New-age organic pollutants - how can we control them with algae?" was selected among the selection of achievements Excellent in Science 2022 in the field of medicine.

In the field of interdisciplinary sciences, the recognition went to the article "Assessment of susceptibility to phthalate and DINCH exposure through CYP and UGT single nucleotide polymorphisms" by dr. Anja Stajnko and her colleagues from the Department of Environmental Sciences.

Prof. dr. Milena Horvat was a guest on the Slovenska kronika show on Slovenian national television.

The paper on Individual-Level Exposure Assessment to Airborne Particulate Matter during Periods of Atmospheric Thermal Inversion by Rok Novak, Tjaša Kanduč, and David Kocman was featured on the main page of the Sensors journal, recognizing the importance of the paper in the field.

Department of Environmental Sciences of the JSI has successfully participated in the Certification of trace elements and methylmercury mass fractions in Fish Flesh Homogenate IAEA-407A. 

Young researcher Žan Rekar won the Mikro+Polo 2023 Promoter of Science award. 

On October 13 and 14, the Novo mesto Development Center organized a ScienceJam Hackathon for Slovenian high school students, where the participants solved one of two scientific and entrepreneurial challenges given by the JSI and Krka, d.d.

JSI participated in the analyzes of the Triglav glacier and the glacier under Skuta.

We are happy to announce that on 24/10/2022 Polona Klemenčič successfully defended her master's thesis with the title Exposure to Cadmium in Slovenian population, and a day later Jan Gačnik successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Metrology of mercury measurements in air.

PARC je evropski projekt, ki ga sofinancira Evropska unija (EU) v okviru zdravstvenega programa Obzorje Evropa 2021 (Horizon Europe 2021). Projekt združuje 200 partnerskih organizacij iz 28 evropskih držav ter številne strokovnjake iz celega sveta. Proračun projekta je 400 milijonov EUR.