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The "Helmholtz Interdisciplinary GRADuate School for Environmental Research (HIGRADE)" provides a coherent framework for qualifying new generations of internationally competitive doctoral researchers in the field of environmental science. Our aim is to prepare doctoral researchers at the UFZ for careers in a range of environmental fields, i.e. for taking over leading positions in research, management and policy, technology development, or consulting and education.
Graduate School HIGRADE: Profile of the day

Anh Vu Nguyen (Vietnam)
Department Solar Materials
Research topic:For my project I would like to investigate metabolism of bacteria under the control of bioelectrochemical systems (BES). This requires a rather systematic approach, combining proteomics (identifying key proteins of the process), metabolomics (metabolite profiling and quantification), and electrochemical analysis (evaluating and monitoring performance of the system), and so on...