Doctor of physics and mathematics, professor.
Course on AACIMP 2009 — Environmental Chemoinformatics.
Country — The Netherlands.
Place of employment: National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment, senior scientist and project manager.
Specialist in sphere of environmental chemistry, ecological effect assessment, chemical risk assessment.
Spheres of science researches:
- Implementation of bioavailability of heavy metals in risk assessment procedures. The aim of this research is to develop methodologies for assessing soil-type and water-type specific heavy metal standards. Models are developed and validated that combine chemical insights in the area of metal speciation, with biological insights regarding uptake of metals as influenced by compartment-specific and organism-specific factors.
- Development and application of quantitative structure activity relationships (QSARs) for the estimation of both physical chemical properties and transformation rates of chemical substances in the environment, with the aim of using these QSARs in models for ecological risk assessment.
- Biotic and abiotic transformation processes of chemical substances in natural ecosystems: development of methods for extrapolating data obtained in laboratory settings to realistic field conditions.
- Fate and effects of organic and inorganic nanomaterials in the environment: fate studies as affected by interactions with biotic and abiotic matrices, and effect studies on aquatic and benthic organisms following assessment of the bioavailable form of the nanomaterials.
Contacts:
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