
Inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is a popular atomic-based technique, and it can be used to solve some of our most pressing environmental issues.

Ayush Agarwal is a postdoctoral researcher at Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung in Berlin, Germany. A Chemical Engineer with a PhD in Energy and a global career spanning India, Sweden, the USA, Switzerland and Germany, Agarwal’s expertise lies in chemical process technologies from laboratory to industrial scale, with specialization in advanced analytical techniques and environmental diagnostics.

Inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is a popular atomic-based technique, and it can be used to solve some of our most pressing environmental issues.

Curiosity may kill the cat, but in engineering, it opens up pathways for engineers to pursue other adjacent career paths.

Accurate and precise measurements are important in analytical science, as this “Pathways in Spectroscopy” clip explains.

In this “Pathways in Spectroscopy” episode, Ayush Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, discusses how his background in chemical engineering helped him make the adjustment to analytical spectroscopy and chemistry.

In this “Pathways in Spectroscopy” episode, Ayush Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, talks about the transition from chemical engineering to analytical chemistry and describes what that transition was like.

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