If no (automated) instrumentation is available to generate data for certain research questions, experimental setups become inevitable. Therefore, we allocate room and equipment for non-conventional sample treatments and analyses of all sorts.

We can provide pre-existing (experimental) methods and facilitate experimentation to establish new customized methods or to adjust existing methods. The projects in our lab include:

• Synthesis of minerals
• Treatment/preparation of environmental samples before analysis (e.g., sequential extractions)
• Flow experiments through sedimentation/sand layers in acetate columns

In addition to standard laboratory equipment, chemicals and consumables, we accommodate high-end analytical instruments, gloveboxes to work under oxygen-free conditions, climate-controlled, clean rooms as well as lab space and a biosafety cabinet for bacterial incubations (biosafety level 2).