Overview of the PhD student activities in the Chemistry program in the field of environmental
                                        chemistry: 2015/16


Student (given name and surname)

                                                                                Michaela Belháčová

Supervisor  (given name and surname)

                                                                                  Branislav Vrana

Consultant (given name and surname)

                                                                            Jana Klánová ; Foppe Smedes

Beginning of the study (month/year)

                                                                                  September/2014

Form of study (delete where appropriate)

                                                                                Present (internal)


Summary of yearly research results (15 lines maximum)

Determination of accessible and freely dissolved concentration in sediment samples collected from
the Danube river using multi-ratio equilibrium passive sampling with silicone rubber based sampler.

Optimization of polydimethylsiloxane polymer based coating application for partitioning passive
sampling.
Collaboration with Water Research Institute Bratislava (processing of SMPD samples collected from S
lovak rivers) and Alena Škodová (processing ofsilicone rubber samples for sampling steroids in wate
r).

Preparation of articles:

1. Application of co-solvent method to reduce  equilibration time of passive sampling for
monitoring porewater concentrations of POPs in freshwater sediments

2. Pore water and accesible concentrations of hydrophobic contaminants in Danube river sediments
estimated by multi-ratio equilibrium passive sampling


Internship abroad (place, start date, duration)

UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmetal Research Leipzig (planed for October – November 2016)


Publication activities during Ph.D. studies

Number of peer-reviewed articles in impacted journals

                                                                                                                            0

Number of conference (oral/poster) presentations

                                                                                                                            2

Number of other publishing activities  (books, book chapters, patents etc.)

                                                                                                                            0

Public lecture in English (delete where appropriate)

                                                                                                                           no



The most important results (5 maximum, show the impact factor of the journal):

                                                 1

Multi-ratio equilibrium passive sampling

                                                 2

Polymer coating of bottle – optimalization of method

                                                 3

Collaboration with projects: Black Sea, Diomedes (NIVA), TACR, GACR

                                                 4



                                                 5