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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Karin Hain
Karin Hain
T: +43-1-4277-51711
M: +43-664-8176816

Consultation hours: Thursday, 2 pm - 3 pm, please announce your visit via e-mail.

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Glückman, D., Quinto, F., Joseph, C., Metz, V., Hain, K., Steier, P., & Geckeis, H. (2025). Diffusion of U(VI) in Opalinus Clay Studied down to Ultratrace Levels. Environmental Science and Technology, 59(17), 8694–8702. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c12739
Qiao, J., Cao, Y., Lin, M., He, Y., Steier, P., & Hain, K. (2025). Forty-Year Time Series of Anthropogenic Uranium in Fucus vesiculosus from Kattegat: Validating 236U Releases from European Nuclear Reprocessing Plants. Environmental Science and Technology, 59(5), 2675-2685. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c07622
Takahashi, H., Sakaguchi, A., Hain, K., Wiederin, A., Kuwae, M., Steier, P., Takaku, Y., Yamasaki, S., & Sueki, K. (2023). Reconstructing the chronology of the natural and anthropogenic uranium isotopic signals in a marine sediment core from Beppu Bay, Japan. Heliyon, 9(4), Article e14153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14153
Wagreich, M., Meszar, M., Lappé, K., Wolf, J., Mosser, M., Hornek, K., Koukal, V., Litschauer, C., Piperakis, N., & Hain, K. (2023). The urban sediments of Karlsplatz, Vienna (Austria) as a reference section for the Anthropocene series. The Anthropocene Review, 10(1), 316-329. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196221136427
Wallner, G., Uguz, H., Kern, M., Jirsa, F., & Hain, K. (2022). Retrospective determination of fallout radionuclides and 236U/238U, 233U/236U and 240Pu/239Pu atom ratios on air filters from Vienna and Salzburg, Austria. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 255, Article 107030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2022.107030
Hain, K., Adler, S., Gülce, F., Martschini, M., Pitters, J., & Golser, R. (2022). Isobar suppression studies for 99Tc detection using Ion-Laser InterAction Mass Spectrometry (ILIAMS). Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 531, 109-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2022.09.016
Morereau, A., Jaegler, H., Hain, K., Steier, P., Golser, R., Beaumais, A., Lepage, H., Eyrolle, F., Grosbois, C., Cazala, C., & Gourgiotis, A. (2022). Deciphering sources of U contamination using isotope ratio signatures in the Loire River sediments: Exploring the relevance of U-233/U-236 and stable Pb isotope ratios. Chemosphere, 307(1), Article 135658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135658
Wiederin, A., Kern, M., Hain, K., Martschini, M., Sakaguchi, A., Steier, P., Yokoyama, A., & Golser, R. (2022). Relative formation probabilities for fluoride and oxyfluoride anions of U, Np,Pu and Am in accelerator mass spectrometry measurements at VERA. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section B. Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 528, 40-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2022.07.011
Wallner, G., Zima, P., Moser, M., Uguz, H., Bartmann, M. G., Steier, P., & Hain, K. (2022). Retrospective determination of U and Pu isotopes and atom ratios in lung samples from Vienna, Austria. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 251-252, Article 106965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2022.106965
Glückman, D., Quinto, F., Hain, K., Joseph, C., Montoya, V., Steier, P., & Geckeis, H. (2022). Concurrent determination of U, Np, Pu, Am, and Cm in clay systems at ultra-trace levels with accelerator mass spectrometry. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 37(8), 1696-1705. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ja00107a
Martschini, M., Lachner, J., Hain, K., Kern, M., Marchhart, O., Pitters, J., Priller, A., Steier, P., Wiederin, A., Wieser, A., & Golser, R. (2022). 5 Years of Ion-Laser Interaction Mass Spectrometry - Status and Prospects of Isobar Suppression in AMS by Lasers. Radiocarbon, 64(3), 555-568. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2021.73
Hain, K., Martschini, M., Gülce, F., Honda, M., Lachner, J., Kern, M., Pitters, J., Quinto, F., Sakaguchi, A., Steier, P., Wiederin, A., Wieser, A., Yokoyama, A., & Golser, R. (2022). Developing Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Capabilities for Anthropogenic Radionuclide Analysis to Extend the Set of Oceanographic Tracers. Frontiers in Marine Science , 9, Article 837515. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.837515
Kern, M., Hain, K., Prášek, T., Steier, P., Wiederin, A., & Golser, R. (2022). Increasing the negative ionization yield for the efficient detection of 233U and 236U by AMS: Radiate Report Series Report R-003. Web publication, Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6256794
Lin, M., Qiao, J., Hou, X., Dellwig, O., Steier, P., Hain, K., Golser, R., & Zhu, L. (2021). 70-Year Anthropogenic Uranium Imprints of Nuclear Activities in Baltic Sea Sediments. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(13), 8918-8927. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c02136
Lin, M., Qiao, J., Hou, X., Golser, R., Hain, K., & Steier, P. (2021). On the Quality Control for the Determination of Ultratrace-Level 236U and 233233U in Environmental Samples by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry, 93(7), 3362-3369. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03623
Qiao, J., Zhang, H., Steier, P., Hain, K., Hou, X., Vartti, V. P., Henderson, G. M., Eriksson, M., Aldahan, A., Possnert, G., & Golser, R. (2021). An unknown source of reactor radionuclides in the Baltic Sea revealed by multi-isotope fingerprints. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 823. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21059-w
Qiao, J., Hain, K., & Steier, P. (2020). First dataset of 236U and 233U around the Greenland coast: A 5-year snapshot (2012–2016). Chemosphere, 257, Article 127185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127185
Prášek, T., Němec, M., Steier, P., Kern, M., Honda, M., Hain, K., & Zhang, X. (2020). New fluoride target matrix preparation procedure for determination of 236U with accelerator mass spectrometry. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 472, 64-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2020.03.029
Hain, K., Steier, P., Froehlich, M. B., Golser, R., Hou, X., Lachner, J., Nomura, T., Qiao, J., Quinto, F., & Sakaguchi, A. (2020). 233U/236U signature allows to distinguish environmental emissions of civil nuclear industry from weapons fallout. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 1275. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15008-2
Hain, K., & Däuble, W. (2019). Selten, radioaktiv und unbekannt. Die Presse. https://www.diepresse.com/5727160/selten-radioaktiv-und-unbekannt

Extending the Set of Environmental Anthropogenic Radionuclide Tracers

Karin Hain (Speaker)

22 Apr 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Science at the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator

Martin Martschini (Speaker) & Karin Hain (Speaker)

10 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The 233U/236U signature for emission source identification in environmental tracer studies

Karin Hain (Speaker)

24 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Extending the set of environmental anthropogenic radionuclide tracers

Karin Hain (Speaker)

3 Jul 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

What do isotope signatures of long-lived radionuclides tell us about their emission sources?

Karin Hain (Speaker)

14 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Providing Element Selectivity in AMS measurements

Karin Hain (Speaker)

28 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Environmental 99Tc concentrations determined by AMS

Karin Hain (Speaker)

15 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Extending the set of environmental tracers by novel anthropogenic radionuclide signatures accessible with AMS

Karin Hain (Speaker)

13 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Radionuclide distributions in (time-resolved) natural archives determined by AMS

Karin Hain (Speaker)

26 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Extending the set of environmental tracers by the novel anthropogenic signatures 233U/236U and 237Np

Karin Hain (Speaker)

20 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Pushing the boundaries of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)

Karin Hain (Speaker)

17 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

What does the environmental abundance of long-lived radionuclides tell us about their emission sources and transport behaviour?

Karin Hain (Speaker)

12 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Study of the global distribution of the long-lived radionuclide Tc-99 with AMS

Karin Hain (Speaker) & Martin Martschini (Speaker)

4 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Developing Ion-Laser InterAction Mass Spectrometry (ILIAMS) for the analysis of environmental 99Tc

Karin Hain (Speaker)

19 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Production and Characterisation of an isotopic spike for the analysis of environmental 237Np by (A)MS

Karin Hain (Speaker)

5 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Ultra-trace analysis of anthropogenic long-lived radionuclides in the environment with AMS

Karin Hain (Speaker)

26 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

What can we learn from the environmental abundance of radionuclides about their emission sources and transport behaviour?

Karin Hain (Speaker)

25 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Was können uns instabile Atomkerne über unsere Umwelt verraten?

Karin Hain (Speaker)

20 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Why and how producing an isotopic spike for the analysis of environmental 237Np

Karin Hain (Speaker)

16 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

From the U-233/U-236 fingerprint towards an environmental tracer: Tracking down the sources of anthropogenic U-233

Karin Hain (Speaker)

18 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Pushing the Limits: Detection of Long-Lived Actinides at VERA

Karin Hain (Speaker)

21 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

233U/236U signature allows to distinguish thermal reactor emissions from weapons fallout in the environment

Karin Hain (Speaker)

2 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Detection of an unknown emission source in the Baltic Sea using the new oceanographic tracer U-233/U-236

Karin Hain (Speaker)

27 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Analysis of the global distribution of actinides and 99Tc in the environment using AMS

Karin Hain (Speaker)

4 Dec 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Application of AMS to Ultra-Low Levels of Actinides and 99Tc in the Environment

Karin Hain (Speaker)

19 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Study of the global distribution of the long-lived radionuclide Tc-99 with AMS

Karin Hain (Speaker)

13 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Tracing Nuclear Weapons Fallout Actinides and 99Tc by AMS

Karin Hain (Speaker)

11 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Recent applications and developments of actinide detection at VERA

Karin Hain (Speaker)

8 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

First study of anthropogenic U-233/U-236 rations in environmental reservoirs

Karin Hain (Speaker)

16 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

233U/236U - A new tracer for environmental processes?

Karin Hain (Speaker)

29 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Analysis of 333U/236U in enviromental samples

Karin Hain (Speaker)

6 Mar 2017 → 10 Mar 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Detection of Pu in Pacific Ocean water by AMS with respect to the Fukushima accident

Karin Hain (Speaker)

27 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Embodied Soils

Hornek, K., Wagreich, M. & Hain, K.

15/12/23 → 15/05/25

Project: Research funding

Establishing a spike material for the analysis of 237Np

Hain, K.

1/08/20 → 31/01/25

Project: Research funding

Study of the global distribution of the radionuclide 99Tc

Hain, K.

15/10/18 → 14/04/23

Project: Research funding

Isotope Physics

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Währinger Straße 17
1090 Wien
Room: 607

T: +43-1-4277-51711
M: +43-664-8176816

karin.hain@univie.ac.at