Dr.Dusan Materic (Matt)
@dusanmateric.bsky.social
Environmental analytical scientist.
Love road trips & fieldwork. Mountains, sea and lakes.
Micro- and nanoplastics. PTR-MS, DOM, VOCs, SVOCs
Lived long and prospered in 🇧🇦🇬🇧🇮🇹🇳🇱🇩🇪
Love road trips & fieldwork. Mountains, sea and lakes.
Micro- and nanoplastics. PTR-MS, DOM, VOCs, SVOCs
Lived long and prospered in 🇧🇦🇬🇧🇮🇹🇳🇱🇩🇪
Plastics or lipids?
Our new paper is out in Nature Medicine!
Do we really have grams of plastic in our brains?
Not really — Py-GC-MS signals can mimic lipids.
The “plastic” might just be the obesity effect — a fatter brain, not a plastic one.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Microplastics
Our new paper is out in Nature Medicine!
Do we really have grams of plastic in our brains?
Not really — Py-GC-MS signals can mimic lipids.
The “plastic” might just be the obesity effect — a fatter brain, not a plastic one.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Microplastics
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Plastics or lipids?
Our new paper is out in Nature Medicine!
Do we really have grams of plastic in our brains?
Not really — Py-GC-MS signals can mimic lipids.
The “plastic” might just be the obesity effect — a fatter brain, not a plastic one.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Microplastics
Our new paper is out in Nature Medicine!
Do we really have grams of plastic in our brains?
Not really — Py-GC-MS signals can mimic lipids.
The “plastic” might just be the obesity effect — a fatter brain, not a plastic one.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Microplastics
Our session on Atmospheric Microplastics and Nanoplastics is now open for #EGU2026!
Join us in beautiful Vienna to discuss the latest advances in detection, sources, and transport of airborne plastics.
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Join us in beautiful Vienna to discuss the latest advances in detection, sources, and transport of airborne plastics.
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Our session on Atmospheric Microplastics and Nanoplastics is now open for #EGU2026!
Join us in beautiful Vienna to discuss the latest advances in detection, sources, and transport of airborne plastics.
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Join us in beautiful Vienna to discuss the latest advances in detection, sources, and transport of airborne plastics.
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
AI can be used for science, espetially when you need a break from super dense multitasking work that actually never ends.
Btw, we have both sides in us, right?
#StarWars
Btw, we have both sides in us, right?
#StarWars
September 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
AI can be used for science, espetially when you need a break from super dense multitasking work that actually never ends.
Btw, we have both sides in us, right?
#StarWars
Btw, we have both sides in us, right?
#StarWars
Let’s address some structural issues in plastic research:
A) A large share of #microplastics & #nanoplastics papers are reviews, not primary data (doi.org/10.1016/j.en...)
B) Some highly cited, widely publicised studies have critical flaws (e.g., missing proper blanks): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
A) A large share of #microplastics & #nanoplastics papers are reviews, not primary data (doi.org/10.1016/j.en...)
B) Some highly cited, widely publicised studies have critical flaws (e.g., missing proper blanks): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Redirecting
doi.org
August 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Let’s address some structural issues in plastic research:
A) A large share of #microplastics & #nanoplastics papers are reviews, not primary data (doi.org/10.1016/j.en...)
B) Some highly cited, widely publicised studies have critical flaws (e.g., missing proper blanks): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
A) A large share of #microplastics & #nanoplastics papers are reviews, not primary data (doi.org/10.1016/j.en...)
B) Some highly cited, widely publicised studies have critical flaws (e.g., missing proper blanks): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Our #nanoplastics work was featured on the 7 pm news this Saturday (ORF TV, Austria). Follow the link for a 3-minute video. Too bad we had many coulds while shooting outside.
#plastic
#plasticpollution
#microplastics
salzburg.orf.at/stories/3316...
#plastic
#plasticpollution
#microplastics
salzburg.orf.at/stories/3316...
Sonnblick: Kunststoffteilchen in der Luft
Kunststoffe verschmutzen nicht nur Ozeane und Straßen, sondern in unsichtbarer Form auch die Luft. Beim Sonnblick-Observatorium in Rauris (Pinzgau) wurden auf mehr als 3.000 Metern kleinste Partikel n...
salzburg.orf.at
August 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Our #nanoplastics work was featured on the 7 pm news this Saturday (ORF TV, Austria). Follow the link for a 3-minute video. Too bad we had many coulds while shooting outside.
#plastic
#plasticpollution
#microplastics
salzburg.orf.at/stories/3316...
#plastic
#plasticpollution
#microplastics
salzburg.orf.at/stories/3316...
Let me show you the way to our micro and #nanoplastics sampling system.
Sonnblick Observatory, 3106 m altitude.
#microplastics
Sonnblick Observatory, 3106 m altitude.
#microplastics
August 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Let me show you the way to our micro and #nanoplastics sampling system.
Sonnblick Observatory, 3106 m altitude.
#microplastics
Sonnblick Observatory, 3106 m altitude.
#microplastics
At 3106 m altitude! Nanoplastics measurement within the project NanoEU is now in its more polluted period - summer.
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
August 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
At 3106 m altitude! Nanoplastics measurement within the project NanoEU is now in its more polluted period - summer.
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
Our new Nature paper was covered in the New York Times. I like the angle of the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...
Tons of Invisible Plastic Pieces Lurk in Ocean Water
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Our new Nature paper was covered in the New York Times. I like the angle of the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...
Our paper is out in Nature: “Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic”. An estimated 27 million tons of NPs are there, even at depths over 4500m. Huge thanks to my brilliant MSc student Sophie and the sampling support from NIOZ! @ufz.de @ufz-cite.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
July 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Our paper is out in Nature: “Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic”. An estimated 27 million tons of NPs are there, even at depths over 4500m. Huge thanks to my brilliant MSc student Sophie and the sampling support from NIOZ! @ufz.de @ufz-cite.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Conference in Pragur started today. It will be busy days with a lot of interesting talks. #Prague #microplastics
July 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Conference in Pragur started today. It will be busy days with a lot of interesting talks. #Prague #microplastics
We sampled, analysed, and are now writing a paper about #nanoplastics in Loch Ness and surrounding rivers. Stay tuned, it is becoming a nice story.
Btw, Scotland is lovely - go visit :). 🏴
Btw, Scotland is lovely - go visit :). 🏴
May 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
We sampled, analysed, and are now writing a paper about #nanoplastics in Loch Ness and surrounding rivers. Stay tuned, it is becoming a nice story.
Btw, Scotland is lovely - go visit :). 🏴
Btw, Scotland is lovely - go visit :). 🏴
A beutiful day in the #Alps. Try with the speaker on 🔊.
This is where we continuously monitor #microplastics and #nanoplastics
This is where we continuously monitor #microplastics and #nanoplastics
May 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
A beutiful day in the #Alps. Try with the speaker on 🔊.
This is where we continuously monitor #microplastics and #nanoplastics
This is where we continuously monitor #microplastics and #nanoplastics
Trying to celebrate for a couple of seconds. I always thought that if I worked hard and hit an h-index of 17–19, some nice things would happen in my career. I guess now we’ll find out.
May 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Trying to celebrate for a couple of seconds. I always thought that if I worked hard and hit an h-index of 17–19, some nice things would happen in my career. I guess now we’ll find out.
It was a successful session at EGU25, “Atmospheric Microplastics and Nanoplastics”.
Many nice presentations and posters. It was nice to see new trends in the field in action.
#egu
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
Many nice presentations and posters. It was nice to see new trends in the field in action.
#egu
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
May 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It was a successful session at EGU25, “Atmospheric Microplastics and Nanoplastics”.
Many nice presentations and posters. It was nice to see new trends in the field in action.
#egu
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
Many nice presentations and posters. It was nice to see new trends in the field in action.
#egu
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
Day and night in Vienna. EGU conference. To bad I am not spending a lot of time in this room - so many awesome talks and posters to see.
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
April 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Day and night in Vienna. EGU conference. To bad I am not spending a lot of time in this room - so many awesome talks and posters to see.
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
My view, now. All the days clowdy and now when I pack to go, is lovely. 😂
Unpredictable Alps🏔️
Unpredictable Alps🏔️
April 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
My view, now. All the days clowdy and now when I pack to go, is lovely. 😂
Unpredictable Alps🏔️
Unpredictable Alps🏔️
Continuing world-leading #nanoplastics monitoring project at Sonnblick Observatory, Austria - NanoEU+. All weather work ☀️❄️🏔️
We aim for high-resolution data and multi-year background levels of ultra-fine #microplastics and #nanoplastics.
We aim for high-resolution data and multi-year background levels of ultra-fine #microplastics and #nanoplastics.
April 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Continuing world-leading #nanoplastics monitoring project at Sonnblick Observatory, Austria - NanoEU+. All weather work ☀️❄️🏔️
We aim for high-resolution data and multi-year background levels of ultra-fine #microplastics and #nanoplastics.
We aim for high-resolution data and multi-year background levels of ultra-fine #microplastics and #nanoplastics.
Successfully finished a full year of #microplastics and #nanoplastics sampling at Sonnblick Observatory, Austria (3106 m a.s.l). Many thanks to Dr. Elke Ludewig (GeoSphere Austria), InteracTA funding for the NanoEU project, and the station technicians who supported the sampling.
April 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Successfully finished a full year of #microplastics and #nanoplastics sampling at Sonnblick Observatory, Austria (3106 m a.s.l). Many thanks to Dr. Elke Ludewig (GeoSphere Austria), InteracTA funding for the NanoEU project, and the station technicians who supported the sampling.
Heading again to the Sonnblick Observatory, Alps 3100 m. We have a micro- and nanoplastic sampling project. And it is snowing ❄️🏔️
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
April 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Heading again to the Sonnblick Observatory, Alps 3100 m. We have a micro- and nanoplastic sampling project. And it is snowing ❄️🏔️
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
An interesting PhD position in atmospheric #microplastics in France:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317781
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317781
Etude des sources, concentrations et dépôts atmosphériques en microplastiques // Study of atmospheric source, concentration and deposition of microplastics
Les microplastiques présents dans tous les compartiments de l'environnement sont l'objet d'études depuis presque deux décennies.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
April 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
An interesting PhD position in atmospheric #microplastics in France:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317781
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317781
Interesting PhD project about #nanoplastics detection in France:
"The central objective is to improve detection sensitivity thanks to this autofluorescence property, targeting particles as small as 30 nm in diameter."
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/312830
"The central objective is to improve detection sensitivity thanks to this autofluorescence property, targeting particles as small as 30 nm in diameter."
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/312830
Three-year PhD position in detection of Nanoplastics with ultraviolet Nanophotonics
RESEARCHER PROFILE: PhD / R1: First stage Researcher RESEARCH FIELD(S)1: Engineering
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
April 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Interesting PhD project about #nanoplastics detection in France:
"The central objective is to improve detection sensitivity thanks to this autofluorescence property, targeting particles as small as 30 nm in diameter."
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/312830
"The central objective is to improve detection sensitivity thanks to this autofluorescence property, targeting particles as small as 30 nm in diameter."
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/312830
Two PhD positions in Iceland. #microplastics in glaciers. Remote, snow.... perfect for the right person.
jobs.50skills.com/ru/en/34335
jobs.50skills.com/ru/en/34335
April 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Two PhD positions in Iceland. #microplastics in glaciers. Remote, snow.... perfect for the right person.
jobs.50skills.com/ru/en/34335
jobs.50skills.com/ru/en/34335
We have a preprint in review about #microplastics and #nanoplastics in human tonsils. See doi.org/10.21203/rs....
The quantity and type of MPs and NPs vary greatly from person to person. And, no, It is not just PE plastics (false positive artefacts)
Why this much variation?
The quantity and type of MPs and NPs vary greatly from person to person. And, no, It is not just PE plastics (false positive artefacts)
Why this much variation?
Size distribution of nanoplastics and tyre wear particles in human tonsils
This study investigates the presence of micro- and nanoplastics in human tonsil tissue. The tonsils are uniquely positioned in the oropharynx, a gateway to both the immune, respiratory, and digestive ...
doi.org
April 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
We have a preprint in review about #microplastics and #nanoplastics in human tonsils. See doi.org/10.21203/rs....
The quantity and type of MPs and NPs vary greatly from person to person. And, no, It is not just PE plastics (false positive artefacts)
Why this much variation?
The quantity and type of MPs and NPs vary greatly from person to person. And, no, It is not just PE plastics (false positive artefacts)
Why this much variation?