From November 11th 2019 to June 1st 2020, PhD student Rinea Barbir was participating in a research study in Helmholtz zentrum Munich, Germany. The research stay was funded through the DAAD scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service.
Rinea Barbir worked in the Unit for analytical biogeochemistry under the supervision of Prof Bernhardt Michalke. Her work included learning the techniques of capillary electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry and the development of a method for separating and analyzing the components of a protein corona on the surface of gold nanoparticles.