3 Mkr for the 3-year project “Direct Mineralization of Atmospheric CO₂ by Enhanced Weathering”.

We will soon be hiring!

Another collaboration with Khalil Hanna (Rennes) and his student (Tao Luo) currently on a 9-month visit in Umeå:

“Fate and Transport of Pharmaceuticals in Iron and Manganese Binary Oxide Coated Sand Columns”
by Luo, Tao; Pokharel, Rasesh; Chen, Tao; Boily, Jean-François; Hanna, Khalil

The Carl Tryggers Foundation funds a 2-year postdoc in the Boily laboratory! You can find the ad here:

https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/postdoctoral-scholarships/7-2213-22/

Write to Jean-François Boily (Jean-francois.boily@umu.se) for details on the position.

Summer 2022: Learning aerosol modeling while on sabbatical in Andi Zuend’s group at McGill University!

Back in Umeå in October!!

Tan Luong just published his first big paper for his Ph.D thesis! The project started during his Master’s, then snowballed into his Ph.D. Here’s the story (PAPER HERE) of what happens when you expose rhodochrosite (MnCO3) to moist air

These are from collaborations with:

1. Jonatan Klaminder (Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University)

Bottone A, Boily J.-F., Shchukarev A., Anderson P., Klaminder 2021. Sodium hypochlorite as an oxidising agent for removal of soil organic matter before micro plastics analyses. J. Env. Qual. 

2. Solomon Tesfalidet (Chemistry, Umeå University)

Haziri V, Phal S, Boily J.-F., Berisha A., Tesfalidet S. 2022. Oxygen interactions with covalently grafted 2D manometric carboxyphenyl thin films – An experimental and DFT study.  Coatings. 49.

3. Khalil Hanna (École National Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, France)

Luo T., Xu J., Cheng W., Zhou L., Marsac R., Wu F., Boily J.-F., Hanna K. 2021 Interactions of anti-inflammatory and antibiotic drugs at mineral surfaces can control environmental fate and transport. Environ. Sci. Technol.

Erik Björn: 3.6 Mkr (Swedish Research Council) for a project on  methyl mercury in biofilms

Erik Björn: 3.0 Mkr (Formas) for a project on  methyl mercury in the sea

Jean-François Boily, Madeleine Ramstedt, Andrey Shchukarev: 10.0 Mkr (Kempe Foundation + Faculty of Science and Technology) for the acquisition of a new X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer

Jean-François Boily: 900 kkr (Kempe) for a postdoctoral project on iron in ice.

Merve Yesilbas: 4 Mkr (Swedish Research Council) for a project on cryosalts on planet Mars

A collaboration with Wei Cheng (Wuhan) and Rémi Marsac (Rennes), and Khalil Hanna (Rennes)!
You can find the paper here

Cheng W, Marsac R., Hanna K., Boily JF. 2021. Competitive Carboxylate-Silicate Binding at Iron Oxyhydroxide Surfaces. Langmuir https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02261