🎓Optimisation and validation of qualitative and quantitative methods for gas phase analytical determination of VOCs for the identification of quarantine pests

Thanks to their highly sensitive sense of smell, sniffer dogs have the special ability to detect drugs, explosives, people or animals by their scent. But how sensitive are dogs and how reliable are their detections? To get to the bottom of this, doctoral student JENNIFER BRAUN is investigating methods for the quality-assured quantification of VOCs, primarily using instrumental analysis but also involving detection dogs.