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Manuscripts for a special section of the scientific Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality can be submitted until 31 May 2024. Prof. Petra Schneider from the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany, is guest editor.

Qing came from China to study the unique master’s programme “Ecological Engineering” at the University of Applied Sciences in Magdeburg. He wrote his master's thesis at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Magdeburg and completed his studies in 2018. Since his heart continued to beat for aquatic ecology, he applied for a PhD position in Wageningen, where he received his doctorate in November 2023. Since December 2023 he has been a postdoc at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research on the island of Texel. Congratulations on such a research career!
By the way, he won the Otto von Guericke Scholarship in Magdeburg in 2018, which is awarded to particularly committed foreign students.

On 9 November, experts of the Department of Water, Environment, Construction and Safety welcomed a Nepalese delegation from the Nepalese Department of Mining and Geology and employees of G.E.O.S. Freiberg, Germany, for a topic day at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. The focus was on research on natural hazards such as landslides, earthquakes and dam breaches.

International project on reuse and disposal options for radioactive residues from titanium placer mining in Vietnam