Curriculum Vitae

Positions held

• Senior Scientist, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, since 2018
• Professor of Environmental Chemistry, RECETOX, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, since 2015 ad-personam title of professor bestowed by the President of the Czech Republic in 2019  
• Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Substance Dynamics, external page Leuphana University, Lüneburg, 2014-2015
• Senior Scientist, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, 2005-2018  
• 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 Science, ETH Zürich, 1999-present.

Professional Qualification

• Member of the Working Group on Nanosilver of the external page Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) of the European Commission (2012–2014).
• Member of the Board and Chair of the external page International Panel on Chemical Pollution, IPCP (since 2007).
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of external page Environmental Science & Technology Letters (2013–2014).
• Member of the roster of experts of the external page POP Review Committee of the external page Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (since 2007).
• Member of the Board of the external page Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Societey, GDCh (2007–2010).
• Member of the selection committee for dissertation fellowships of the DBU (external page Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt) (2009-2017).
• Chair of the Board of the external page Food Packaging Forum Foundation (since 2012).
• Co-author of chapters on chemicals in UNEP's 5th external page Global Environment Outlook (2012) and in the external page UNEP Year Book 2013.
• 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 page Environmental Science & Technology (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 page Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)