aeroHEALTH
The German-Israeli Helmholtz International Laboratory aeroHEALTH strives to understand the biological and health effects of atmospheric aerosols mechanistically by combining information on primary emissions as well as secondary and ambient aerosols. Atmospheric processing (“ageing”) under atmospheric relevant conditions of biogenic and anthropogenic emissions are simulated on short- and long-term scales to connect laboratory observations with the observed health impacts from field experiments.
A crucial step in assessing the biological effects is to explore the chemical nature of such aerosols. In the framework of the aeroHEALTH measurement campaigns, innovative mass spectrometric approaches combined with a thermal or high-resolution gas chromatographic separation were used to investigate the complex mixtures of secondary organic aerosols.
The project is funded and supported by the Helmholtz International Laboratory aeroHEALTH (InterLabs-0005; www.aerohealth.eu), the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HGF), and the Helmholtz Virtual Institute of Complex Systems in Environmental Health (www.hice-vi.eu, Inhale-HICE). aeroHEALTH is a cooperation of the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU, Germany), the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ, Germany) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS, Israel) with the associated partners University of Rostock (UR, Germany) and University of Eastern Finland (UEF, Finland).
aeroHEALTH
The German-Israeli Helmholtz International Laboratory aeroHEALTH strives to understand the biological and health effects of atmospheric aerosols mechanistically by combining information on primary emissions as well as secondary and ambient aerosols. Atmospheric processing (“ageing”) under atmospheric relevant conditions of biogenic and anthropogenic emissions are simulated on short- and long-term scales to connect laboratory observations with the observed health impacts from field experiments.
A crucial step in assessing the biological effects is to explore the chemical nature of such aerosols. In the framework of the aeroHEALTH measurement campaigns, innovative mass spectrometric approaches combined with a thermal or high-resolution gas chromatographic separation were used to investigate the complex mixtures of secondary organic aerosols.
The project is funded and supported by the Helmholtz International Laboratory aeroHEALTH (InterLabs-0005; www.aerohealth.eu), the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HGF), and the Helmholtz Virtual Institute of Complex Systems in Environmental Health (www.hice-vi.eu, Inhale-HICE). aeroHEALTH is a cooperation of the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU, Germany), the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ, Germany) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS, Israel) with the associated partners University of Rostock (UR, Germany) and University of Eastern Finland (UEF, Finland).