General terms and fundamentals of instrumental analytics – focussing environmental analysis and monitoring of industrial processes 

Conception/characteristic steps of analytical process (sampling specifics for gases, liquids and solids – legal prerequisites and further regulations; technical principles and equipment etc.; sample preparation, e.g. comminution/crushing, extraction, stabilisation; selection of analytical principles and method development – including fundamentals of data processing and interpretation) 

Analytical principle/methods of chromatography (historical aspects, fundamental principles of chromatographic separation/compound distribution; specifics of thin layer, liquid and gas chromatography – including introduction to technical equipment/analytical instruments applied) 

Analytical principle/methods of spectrometry (fundamentals of atomic and molecular spectroscopy – absorption, emission and fluorescence techniques; specifics of atomic absorption and emission spectrometry, plasma and mass spectrometry, photometry and IR spectroscopy – including introduction to technical equipment/analytical instruments applied) 

(application/consolidation of acquired knowledge in experimental/laboratory and project work; possibility to attend subject-specific excursions)