Exams - congratulations 

Ditte Thomsen passed her part A PhD exam on October 26, 2020. Title: The Influence of Temperature on Multiphase Reactivity and Growth of Atmospheric Aerosols. External opponent: Dr. Martin A. B. Enghoff (DTU, space)

Sigurd Christiansen PhD: Sigurd defended his PhD thesis on October 23, 2020. Title of thesis: Sea Spray Aerosols: Formation and Cloud Forming Potential. External opponents: Prof. Gordon McFiggans (University of Manchester) and Dr. Heike Wex (Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research)

New grants in 2020

• Plastic in the air (with Marianne Glasius) from DFF, TEMATISK FORSKNING - GRØN OMSTILLING, 2020 
• A novel instrument for the accurate and direct measurement of saturation vapor pressures of low-volatile substances (with Aurelian R. Dantan and Henrik B. Pedersen), FORSKNINGSPROJEKT 2 TEKNOLOGI OG PRODUKTION, 2020 
•  The ATMO-ACCESS project has  reached the stage of Grant Agreement preparation. The  European Commission has released the evaluations and funding decisions of the applications to the INFRAIA-03-2020 call. ATMO-ACCESS is among the projects that were funded.  Our  AURA atmospheric simulation facility is part of ATMO-ACCESS and will become a Trans National Access Facility. 
• The DRAMA project was funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (DRAMA: Deciphering the Role of Atmospheric Microbial Aerosols), DKK 15 million from Novo for research in the clouds (au.dk)