I am a PhD student at the Department of Combustion Physics, where I investigate the nanostructure and other properties of different types of soot particles in order to gain a greater understanding of how they affect our climate and air quality. For that, I primarily use laser-based measurement techniques such as Raman spectroscopy, absorption measurements, laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) and laser-induced incadence (LII), with the help of those techniques we can e.g. investigate how the absorption differs for soot particles of different sizes and with different amounts of carbon.

During my PhD, I have had a little extra focus on measurements of aerosolized soot particles, and have also developed a sampling system to study soot aerosols sampled from flames.