Indirect disease transmission occurs when pathogens are shed into the environment during transmission from infected to susceptible people. This environmentally-mediated transmission is characteristic of respiratory, gastrointestinal, and nosocomial pathogens, and can be conceptualized by the commonly described “F-diagram”. The “F-diagram” is a model of the role environmental compartments (food, fluids, fingers, fomites, fields, and flies) ...

This habilitation thesis entitled “Environmental Chemistry of Biomolecules” focusses on determining chemical information to evaluate water quality and to protect human health and ecosystem functioning. Such knowledge is crucial for public authorities to manage water resources especially as we are facing growing inputs of bioactive chemicals with adverse environmental effects. My work is rooted in environmental and analytical chemistry of ...

The increasing rates of data generation, collection, and transfer over collective networks - the Internet of Things (IoT) – are shaping an interconnected society progressively depends on the availability of efficient computing and communication systems. For the last 50 years, the evolution of computational architectures has been largely driven by Moore’s scaling law and the breakthroughs of the CMOS technology. However, the continuous ...