Karen Galea, PhD has worked at the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), Edinburgh, UK, for over 21 years and is currently one of their Research Team Leads/Principal Scientists. She is actively involved in a wide variety of research projects, mainly focused on human exposure assessment relating to health risks. Her research has included dermal and …
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Emily Christopher
Emily Christopher is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Occupational Medicine with a background in toxicology and hazardous exposures and interest in improving health inequities. She earned her Masters degree in Public Health at The University of Edinburgh and BSc in Biological Sciences (Human Health) at Heriot-Watt University. Emily works with pharmaceutical companies to …
Amanda Durkin
Amanda Durkin is a PhD candidate in environmental epidemiology at the University Medical Center Utrecht. She currently contributes to epidemiological investigations and risk assessment of microplastics in maternal and fetal exposures. She obtained her BSc in Environmental Health from the University of Washington, Seattle and her MSc in Health Sciences from the Vrije Universitiet, Amsterdam. …
Runyu Zou
Runyu Zou is an Assistant Professor of environmental epidemiology and exposome science at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He obtained his medical bachelor’s degree and MPH degree in China, and MSc (Epidemiology) and PhD in the Netherlands. During his PhD and 1-year postdoc research at Erasmus MC, he examined perinatal determinants of child brain development, …
Martin Scheringer
Martin Scheringer is the president of the foundation board of the Food Packaging Forum. He is a Professor of Environmental Toxicology at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic and a senior scientist at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. His research interests focus on better understanding the fate of anthropogenic chemicals and the resulting human and environmental …
Barbara Scholz-Böttcher
Barbara Scholz-Böttcher is a senior scientist and researcher at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. She is a member of the Organic Geochemistry working group. Her scientific background is in the field of food, environmental, and analytical chemistry. Her research focuses on biomarker …
Virissa Lenters
Virissa Lenters is an Assistant Professor in environmental epidemiology and exposome science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She currently investigates how the pollutome and more broadly the urban and chemical exposome affect development and disease susceptibility, including the independent and mediating effects of the microbiome. She earned her MSc and PhD in Epidemiology from Utrecht University. …
Roel Vermeulen
Roel Vermeulen, Coordinator of the AURORA project, is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Exposome Science at Utrecht University and was appointed Utrecht University Distinguished University Professor in 2024 He holds an adjunct professor position at the Julius Center, Department Public Health Healthcare Innovation and Medical Humanities (UMC Utrecht) and a Visiting Professorship at Imperial College …
Lisa Zimmermann
Lisa Zimmermann completed her MSc in biological science with a focus in ecotoxicology, molecular toxicology, and biochemistry at the University of Konstanz. After working as a project manager at Oro Verde – Tropical Forest Foundation in Germany and Guatemala, she started a PhD at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. There her focus was on …
Jane Muncke
Dr. Jane Muncke has been the managing director and chief scientific officer at the Food Packaging Forum since 2012. She is trained as an environmental toxicologist (PhD) and environmental scientist (MSc) and has a background in academic research (analytical chemistry, aquatic sciences, ecotoxicology), as well as expertise on chemicals in food contact materials and plastics. …