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Expertise
  • Identification of Chemicals which cause environmental risks
  • Methods for initial hazard screening and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, disinfection by-products and persistent organic pollutants with an emphasis on mixtures
  • Closing the gap between exposure and impact assessment through a better understanding and modeling of the toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic processes
  • Development of tools for passive sampling as well as dosing and high throughput bioanalytical tools for environmental monitoring
Function
  • Head of the Department of Cell Toxicology
  • Professor of Environmental Toxicology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen
  • Lecturer at ETH Zürich
  • Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland and adjunct professor at Griffith University
  • Member of the German Science Council
  • Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors (BORE) at Science