Yuri Bruinen De Bruin

Chair/President

Since 18 years I am working in research and policy-supporting science in the field of human and environmental health. I gained most of my experience at the University of Milan, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (EC JRC) and within the Dutch Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). I lived and worked in the Netherlands, Italy, Finland and in Indonesia.

My work incorporates coordination, planning, management, provision of research, technical and policy support, capacity-building, teaching, participation to working groups, prioritization and policy support. Daily work consists of a high degree of teamwork consulting other's ideas, competencies and skills. Individual achievements existed, but end-results are commonly the result of a group process. My work involves communication via dialogues with stakeholders as scientists, policy-makers, industry, NGO's and the public-at-large exploring strategic options to better protect human and environmental health.

My most important drive is to contribute to a better and more safe and clean society. I like to combine science and policy and aim to integrate various policy related issues taking into account stakeholders views. Doing this, I like to make people enthusiastic by finding the commonly shared motivation factor ('x-factor').

Tanya Dudzina

Representative to ISES Board

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Jos Bessems

Secretary/Treasurer

Jos Bessems (MSc in biology, PhD in chemistry) has been a regulatory toxicologist and risk assessor since 1996. His focus has been on toxicokinetics and the use of non-animal approaches since long. He was active for OECD (a.o. preparing OECD Test Guidelines) and EMA and participated as invited speaker, panelist etc for ECHA, EFSA, OECD, SOT, EUROTOX, UTOX, ILSI-HESI and ICCA-LRI. Jos participated in various international activities on the development of new risk assessment methodologies for pesticides as well as industrial chemicals (a.o. REACH). He acted as chair and rapporteur of the combined "EPAA and EURL ECVAM workshop on PBTK modelling tools for risk assessment purposes" (2011; EC JRC, Ispra). He lectured at several post-graduate and continuing education courses. Recently, he shifted focus to the exposure pillar of human health risk assessment to include consumer, worker and environmental exposure, (molecular) epidemiology and human biomonitoring. His last major achievement was the European Commission's JRC Science to Policy Report "EURL ECVAM strategy for achieving 3Rs impact in the assessment of toxicokinetics and systemic toxicity". Jos Bessems is founder and current secretary of ISES Europe.

Alison Connolly

Student representative - Webmaster

Alison Connolly is a PhD candidate in the Centre of Climate and Air Pollution Studies (C-CAPS) in the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), researching exposures to plant protection products from occupational uses in the amenity horticulture and gardening sector. Research conducting by Alison involves completing exposure assessments using biomonitoring and dermal sampling among professional amenity horticulturists.

Alison obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) honorary degree in Health and Safety Systems from the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) in 2014. Alison has a keen interest in exposure science and occupational hygiene and is a member of the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), a committee member of the Occupational Hygiene Society of Ireland (OHSI) and a member of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES).

Peter Fantke

European Exposure Science Strategy

Peter Fantke is associate professor in quantitative sustainability assessment with research experience in and focus on assessing environmental fate, human and ecosystem exposure, and toxicological impacts of chemicals. He contributed to several national and international projects focusing on life cycle impact assessment, external cost analysis, socioeconomic analysis, environmental risk assessment, and alternatives assessment incl. chemical substitution. He is executive manager of USEtox, the UNEP/SETAC scientific consensus model for characterizing toxicity impacts of chemicals.

He contributes to training at MSc and PhD level, organizes international training workshops, initiated and coordinates internal training in his research division, and coordinates global task forces on quantifying emissions of pesticides and addressing health effects from exposure to fine particulate matter and toxic chemicals.

Urs Schlüter

Stakeholders, communication & capacity building

Dr. Urs Schlüter is head of the unit Exposure Scenarios at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) which is the German Competent Authority for the REACH and Biocides regulations. He leads a unit of 20 scientists and engineers who perform the regulatory exposure assessments for workplaces in the framework of REACH and Biocides. Urs Schlüter is a chemist how studied at the universities of Dortmund, Münster and Raleigh (NC).

During his work for BAuA he participated in a number of national and European working committees including the Technical and the Competent Authority Meeting on Biocides. Since 2011 he has been a member of the ECHA’s Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC). He has managed research studies that were aimed at the evaluation of work place situations (exposure assessment, risk management measures) for biocidal products.

Natalie von Goetz

Natalie von Goetz is senior scientist and lecturer at theSwiss Federal Office of Public Health Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). Chemist by training, she worked in industry for 10 years in the area of environmental exposure modelling. Since 2008 she is leading a research group for modelling consumer exposure to chemicals of concern at ETH, and starting this year she also works for the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health.

Her research interests encompass the development of methodology for consumer exposure modelling, assessing aggregate consumer exposure to chemicals of concern (e.g. EDCs, sensitizers, nanoparticles) as well as translating academic insights into information useful for decision makers. As an external expert for exposure science she is contributing regularly to the risk assessment of chemicals at European governmental authorities, such as the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) and the scientific committee on consumer safety (SCCS).