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Åke Bergman

Position: Post Retirement Professor School/office: School of Science and Technology

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Phone: +46 19 302389

Room: B2308

Åke Bergman
Research subject Research environments

About Åke Bergman

Åke Bergman is Senior professor at Örebro University and operational at Man-Technology-Environment research centre (MTM), Faculty of Business, Science and Engineering. He is today active as Senior advisor in the management team of the Platform for Sustainable Future at Örebro University (PSF@ORU). Bergman is Professor Emeritus at ACES, Stockholm Universitet and Advisory Professor at College of Environmental Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai.

Research

Åke Bergman has a research history that dates back to 1975. His research, ever since, is related to his mission to contribute with a science base for societal actions to improve environment and health situation regarding chemical pollution. His focus in this research relates to man-made chemicals (pollutants) impact on human health and reproductive insufficiency among wildlife, i.e. endocrine disruption. His research has focused on organic chemical pollutants and their transformation products, e.g. PCBs, persistent pesticides, brominated flame retardants (BFRs), phthalates, per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) och chlorinated paraffins (CPs). Åke Bergman has been particularly active to study how environmental pollutants are transformed in the environment and living organisms. He has published >300 original scientific articles. He has been the supervisor of 30 Ph.D. students in Environmental Chemistry. He is presently active in two EU funded research projects, ATHENA and EIRENE RI.

Teaching

As the first head of the Department of Environmental Chemistry, Åke Bergman, initiated and built courses in environmental chemistry at Stockholm University during the 1990s. He has participated as a teacher until 2020. He also initiated the Stockholm University and Umeå University collaboration on the first Master program in Sweden in environmental chemistry, the Swedish School of Environmental Chemistry (SSEC)) 2005-2010. After 2010 Stockholm University took over and ran the master program in Environmental Chemistry. Åke Bergman is still doing some teaching, primarily in EU and China. He is presently leading a mapping effort for the five Nordic countries regarding competence provision in the area of chemical risk analysis.

Cooperation and Commissions

Åke Bergman has extensive cooperation both nationally and globally. One recent and important example is the collaboration with researchers at Tongji University, e.g. through the VR/Formas/Forte-program ”CHEMSTRRES”. This has generated numerous articles and also two books (2017 and 2019). Researchers at MTM are continuing the collaboration with Tongji University.

Åke Bergman has worked with Swedish governmental inquiries and commissions for the European Commission (EFSA) och for UNEP/WHO. He was the coordinator of the State of the science on Endocrine disruptors – 2012, a report also available in Chinese.

Publications

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Articles in journals

Articles, reviews/surveys

Conference papers

Reports