Best Poster Awards 2025 at the 28th ETH Nanoparticles Conference: Third place goes to two researchers from ICE-3

Every year Best Poster Awards are presented for the most accomplished poster presentations of the ETH Nanoparticles Conference. Third place this year went to the poster by PhD student Sarah Kirchhoff and Dr. Patrick Weber (both ICE-3) entitled “Insights from over Two Years of DMSO Use as a Working Fluid in Condensation Particle Counters”.

IAGOS: Commercial aircraft for climate research: ‘aerial photographs’ of the global atmosphere

The German science journal Physik in unserer Zeit has published an invited overview article about IAGOS. Entitled ‘Commercial aircraft for climate research’, the article reports on the ‘aerial photographs’ of the global atmosphere.

Joint atmospheric measurements on top of Monte Cimone in collaboration with CNR-ISAC Bologna

To investigate air pollution in Italy the ICE-3 team from Forschungszentrum Jülich and the atmospheric measurements team from CNR-ISAC Bologna are conducting joint measurements on top of Monte Cimone. The one-month campaign investigates outflows from the polluted Po Valley and the clean Tyrrhenian Sea.

Collaboration with UC Berkeley

LA’s communities of color bear a disproportionate burden of air pollution. Jennifer Ofodile, PhD ’25 ESPM, and Eva Pfannerstill are co-first authors of the paper, with the research study led by Allen Goldstein, a UC Berkeley professor in the Departments of ESPM and Civil and Environmental Engineering.

YESP: Six postdocs selected – two of them from ICE-3

Six early-career researchers have been selected in the second round of funding for the Young Excellent Scientist Program (YESP), with two of them coming from ICE-3.

VITAL Summer School and Campaign

The drone flights are part of the VITAL I measurement campaign (vertical profiling of the troposphere: innovation, optimisation and application) being conducted at Forschungszentrum Jülich this year. In addition to the drones, VITAL I will also use newly developed lidar and radar systems to provide continuous weather observations at high altitudes from the ground.

The Sky over Los Angeles: Rising temperatures affect air quality

Particulate matter and ozone are a major problem for people and the environment. Dr. Eva Pfannerstill, young investigator group leader at Jülich’s Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK 8), is investigating where the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) responsible for particulate matter and ozone come from and what climate change has to do with it. In her paper, which was written at the University of California, Berkeley, and recently published in Science, she sheds light on the contribution of plant and human emissions to the air quality of Los Angeles.

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