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Examining the extremely small

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Meet Dr Evelyn Ploetz Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany Research project : Using applied spectroscopy to study the transport of nanoparticles Funder : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft I have always been a creative person with a passion for music and mathematics.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Scientific model — a conceptual or mathematical representation of a real-world phenomenon that allows scientists to study the phenomenon in more detail. Scientists can now turn their theories into mathematical models, which can then be expressed in software as simulations. Scientific imaging in physics. Sarah’s research.