- creating and maintaining a BUKI on less-studied TCEs; you can find it at www.unige.ch/TCEs; only Ta and Te available for the moment!
- construction of thermodynamically consistent equilibrium constant databases for Ta, Nb, Te, Gd, Ga, In and Ge, in collaboration with Peter May
- understanding Ge determination by HG-ICP-MS, in collaboration with Tomáš Matoušek
- coordination of an Environmental Chemistry Research Front on TCEs; coeditors: Ishai Dror and Dario Omanovic