Praise for Empa environmental researcher

The media company «Thomson Reuters» has included Empa researcher Bernd Nowack in its list of «Highly Cited Researchers» of 2015. Nowack is one of 132 researchers worldwide who have been honoured in this way in the field of «Environment/Ecology». The Thomson Reuters list includes a total of 79 active researchers from Switzerland. Bernd Nowack investigates how chemical substances enter the environment and what effects they have on the various ecosystems there. For example how silver particles reach the environment through washing machines. The list of «Highly Cited Researchers», which Thomson Reuters has published this year for the third time, represents approximately 3000 of the most influential scientific minds in the world. The decisive measurement value for the influence of a scientific publication and for the reputation of the author within their field is how often a researcher is cited by their colleagues.