Curriculum Vitae
Positions held
- Professor of Environmental Chemistry, external pageRECETOXcall_made, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, since 2015
- Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Substance Dynamics, external pageLeuphana University, Lüneburgcall_made, 2014–2015
- Senior Scientist, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, since 2005
- Research Associate, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, 1999–2004
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, ETH Zürich, 1996–1998.
- Lecturer, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 1997–present.
- Lecturer, Department of Environmental System Sciences, ETH Zürich, 1999–present.
Professional Qualification
- Member of the Working Group on Nanosilver of the external pageScientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Riskscall_made (SCENIHR) of the European Commission (2012–2014).
- Member of the Board and Chair of the external pageInternational Panel on Chemical Pollution, IPCPcall_made (since 2007).
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of external pageEnvironmental Science & Technology Letterscall_made (2013–2014).
- Member of the roster of experts of the external pagePOP Review Committeecall_made of the external pageStockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutantscall_made (since 2007).
- Member of the Board of the external pageDivision of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Societey, GDChcall_made (2007–2010).
- Member of the selection committee for dissertation fellowships of the DBU (external pageDeutsche Bundesstiftung Umweltcall_made) (since 2009).
- Chair of the Board of the external pageFood Packaging Forum Foundationcall_made (since 2012).
- Co-author of chapters on chemicals in UNEP's 5th external pageGlobal Environment Outlookcall_made (2012) and in theexternal pageUNEP Year Book 2013call_made.
- Habilitation at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences of ETH Zürich (April 2005).
Membership and Awards
- American Chemical Society, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, German Chemical Society,
Swiss Academic Society of Environmental Research - Excellence-in-Review Award of external pageEnvironmental Science & Technologycall_made (2012)
Education
- Dissertation at the Department of Environmental Sciences of ETH Zürich with a thesis on "Persistence and Spatial Range as Indicators for the Assessment of Environmental Chemicals" (July 1996). Degree: Doctor of Science, DSc.
- Diploma in Chemistry from Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, October 1990. Diploma work on "Orientational Ordering in Lipid Monolayers: A Two-Dimensional Model of Rigid Rods Grafted onto a Lattice", Institute of Physics, Universität Mainz, Germany.
- Student scholarship (1985–1990) and doctoral scholarship (1992–1996) of the German National Academic Foundation (external pageStudienstiftung des Deutschen Volkescall_made)