Praise for Empa environmental researcher

The list of «Highly Cited Researchers», which Thomson Reuters has published this year for the third time, represents approximately 3000 of the most influential scientific minds in the world. The decisive measurement value for the influence of a scientific publication and for the reputation of the author within their field is how often a researcher is cited by their colleagues. The researchers who have been honoured all have publications within the topmost percentage ranges of the most frequently cited studies in their specialist fields, which is evidence of the extraordinary influence and respect that their work enjoys.

This is already the second such honour for Nowack and his research work since 2014. Bernd Nowack, Group Leader in the Department of «Technology and Society» and honorary professor at ETH Zürich, investigates how chemical substances enter the environment and what effects they have on the various ecosystems there. To do this, he models the release and actions of nanoparticles in the environment.
More information about the Thomson Reuters list and the names of other researchers can be found here.