Each PhD or postdoc journey is unique and incomparable and it’s important to measure yourself against your past selve, rather than your peers.
Using the ubiquitous presence of water, you can get data on a whole range of chemical properties from your materials with dynamic vapour sorption.
Some see professional development courses as part of their doctoral program as a waste of time. ‘Au contraire!’, says Isabelle Kohler.
Isabelle Kohler gives you tips for choosing a PhD supervisor, emphasizing the importance of a good fit for a successful PhD and career.
Fungal materials seem to be everywhere in our lives and their applications seem limitless. But there are also fundamental questions that have yet to be answered.
InspectT has developed a size-determining chip that can be easily integrated into an IR or UV/Vis spectrometer.
Royal Avebe is collaborating with CarbExplore Research and the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) to develop new healthy starch varieties.
Isabelle calls for a shift in the academic mindset and emphasizes the need for structural changes to ensure the well-being of academic professionals.
Making molecules with bacteria and electrochemistry, that’s what drives Ludovic Jourdin in a nutshell. This relatively new field is developing quickly and has much to offer.
Ghent-based start-up AmphiStar is one of the first in the world to produce biosurfactants using a yeast that derives its nutrients entirely from biological waste streams.
With its high-quality quartz materials for cuvettes and laboratory probes, HELLMA Analytics enables researchers to perform extremely precise optical spectroscopy measurements.
In this column, Isabelle Kohler encourages young scientists to set clear boundaries and prioritize their health.
In RSC Sustainability, Groningen researchers present the results of their efforts to make labs more sustainable and provide tips for other labs.
Elutriators are used to prevent ammonia from entering the atmosphere. A new system using a plasma reactor makes the nitrogen cycle circular.
In this column, Isabelle invites young scientists to be open to the unexpected in their careers and to trust the process.
Building an impressive international network is second nature to Kimberly Tran (23), who does not let long distances stand in her way.
ReSolved Technologies aims to dissolve waste streams to better reuse engineering plastics for closed-loop recycling.
Isabelle Kohler shares some experiences and tips on how to stay productive despite the constant stream of emails we get nowadays.
Looking ahead to ECB 2024, C2W International catches up with plenary speaker Michael Köpke of LanzaTech.
An international team has developed a new method for filtering PFOS and PFOA out of water with functionalised ring-shaped molecules.