Professor Beate Escher is Deputy Director of the National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology (Entox) in Brisbane, Australia, where she researches mode-of-action based environmental risk assessment, including methods for initial hazard screening and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals and pesticides with an emphasis on mixtures, and especially effect assessment of transformation products and disinfection by-products. One of her goals is to close the gap between exposure and effect assessment through approaches linking bioavailability to internal exposure and effects via understanding and modelling of toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic processes.
Her research expertise covers “Exposure and Impacts” and “Novel Analytical Tools and Measurement Technologies” areas of our scope. Take a look at some of her recent research in these areas:
Recovery of a freshwater wetland from chemical contamination after an oil spill
Haipu Bi, David Rissik, Miroslava Macova, Laurence Hearn, Jochen F. Mueller and Beate Escher
DOI: 10.1039/C0EM00406E
Advantages of toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic modelling in aquatic ecotoxicology and risk assessment
Roman Ashauer and Beate I. Escher
DOI: 10.1039/C0EM00234H
JEM Spotlight: Monitoring the treatment efficiency of a full scale ozonation on a sewage treatment plant with a mode-of-action based test battery
Beate I. Escher, Nadine Bramaz and Christoph Ort
DOI: 10.1039/B907093A
We asked her what areas of environmental science she thought would gain significance in the next few years:
“Areas of growing significance will be the disinfection by-products and transformation products of organic micropollutants.”
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