At the time of the study, Dr Saer Samanipour was employed by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). In 2017, he was awarded a mobility grant by the Norwegian Research Council (RCN) to visit the University of Queensland. Image: HIMS.
At the time of the study, Dr Saer Samanipour was employed by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). In 2017, he was awarded a mobility grant by the Norwegian Research Council (RCN) to visit the University of Queensland. Image: HIMS. Using chemistry and advanced data analysis for mapping demography In a paper recently published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, Dr Saer Samanipour of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) reports on the chemical analysis of municipal wastewater as a predictor for population socioeconomics. The study attracted worldwide attention after an article in the Science & Technology section of The Economist. Samanipour, who recently joined HIMS, performed the study together with colleagues at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences of the University of Queensland, Australia, where he holds an honorary research fellowship. By coinciding the sampling phase of the study with the 2016 Australian Census, the researchers were able to correlate the socioeconomic characteristics of Australian communities (following from the census) with sewage composition (following from chemical analysis).
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