Christine Benning

Chemical-Technical Assistant

christine.benning[at]tum.de

since 02/1996

Chemical-technical assistant, Institute of Hydrochemistry, Technische Universität München, Munich

1993 – 1995

Trained as a licensed chemical-technical assistant at the Chemical School Dr. Elhardt, Munich

Responsibilities 

Scanning Electron Microscopy  SEM/EDX

• Sample preparation 
• Imaging and elemental analysis on various organica and inorganic samples
• Cryo-EM: sample preparation with cryoplunge system and method development
• instrument maintenance

Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometry ICP-MS

• Development of new methods, sample preparation, analyses, and data evaluation
• Single Particle ICP-MS
• Instrument maintenance 

Microwave pressure digestion

• Method development on different organic and inorganic samples
• Instrument maintenance 

Ultrafiltration 

• Sample preparation for nanoparticle analysis, partly under inert gas atmosphere