
In the final part of our conversation with David Clases at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, he reacts to winning both awards and offers his perspective on the key spectroscopic trends this year.

David Clases is an associate professor at the University of Graz in Vienna, Austria. Clases’ research spans fundamental and applied aspects of inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), from laser ablation-ICP-MS to ICP-time of flight MS (ICP-TOFMS) and single-particle analysis.

In the final part of our conversation with David Clases at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, he reacts to winning both awards and offers his perspective on the key spectroscopic trends this year.

Part II of our conversation with David Clases focused on his proof-of-concept analysis of microplastic and TiO₂ nanoparticles, and the new insights that emerged from simultaneously accessing size, molecular identity, and elemental composition at the single-particle level.

In this interview clip, David Clasas of the University of Graz discusses the trapping mechanism of the OF2i and how it improves downstream Raman and ICP-TOFMS measurements and also highlights the multimodal approach his team used to improve microplastic analysis.

January 29th 2026

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