Research Projects and Activities

2011 – 2016 NICE: Co-ordination of the strong research environment on „Novel instruments for effect-based assessment of chemical pollution in coastal ecosystems“ (funded by Formas)
2011 – 2013 Study on the risks of environmental effects of medicinal products (funded by the EU Commission, Executive Agency for Health and Consumers, lead by BIO Intelligence Service)
2011 – 2013 Pharmas: Assessing the human health and environmental impact of pharmaceuticals in the environment (funded by the EU Commission, FP7, led by Brunel University)

2011 – 2014
Effect-based assessment of mixtures of natural and synthetic endocrine active compounds in the environment (long-range research initiative funded by the European Chemical Industry Council, CEFIC, led by CEFAS).
2010 – 2012 Ecotoxic combination effects of chemical mixtures, project on the options for considering combination effects in the product authorisation for biocides and plant protection products (funded by the German Federal Environmental Agency, led by the UFZ)
2010 – 2014 NanoFATE: Assessment of environmental fate, hazards and risks of man-made nanoparticles (funded by the EU Commission, FP7, led by NERC)
2002 – 2012 Co-ordination of the Marine Paint Programme (funded by the Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research, MISTRA)
2008 – 2010 Compilation of the “State of the Art Report on Mixture Toxicology” for the European Commission’s Environment Directorate-General. Led by Prof. Andreas Kortenkamp.

2004 – 2004
Coordination of a project on predictive ecological mixture toxicity assessment – pharmaceutical mixtures and microbial communities (sponsored by the Swedish Research Council for the Environment, Formas)
2001 – 2005 Ace: Analysing combination effects of mixtures of estrogenic chemicals in marine and freshwater organisms (Funded by the EU Commission, FP6, led by Brunel University)

2000 – 2003
Beam: Bridging Effect Assessment of Mixtures to Ecosystem Situations and Regulation (Funded by the EU Commission, FP5, co-ordination together with my colleagues Michael Faust and Martin Scholze).