Ecotoxicological impact of re-mobilized sediments and flood events for lock regulated rivers and wetlands
21 November 2016 10:00 – 11:00 B1211, Bilbergska huset
Speaker
Henner Hollert, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
About the speaker
Henner Hollert is Head of the Department of Ecosystem Analysis at the Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University and recently Dean of the Aachen Biology and Biotechnology. Furthermore, he is adjunct professor at the Universities of Chongqing, Nanjing and Tongji University in Shanghai (China).
He is expert in bioanalytical environmental toxicology, aquatic toxicology, development and validation of in vitro bioassays, sediment and soil toxicology, waste- and ground water investigations, effect-directed analysis and weight-of-evidence approaches. He has a long standing experience in investigation of flood events in respect to water quality.
Henner Hollert is council member of the Society Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Europe-German Language Branch (president in 2004) and is one of the Core group members of BioSC (Bioeconomy Science Centre). Moreover, he is Editor in Chief of Environmental Sciences Europe as the first international Open Access Journal in Environmental Sciences at Springer publishers. Since 2005 he is editor at Environmental Science and Pollution Research and subject editor of the Journal of Soils and Sediments and the Journal of Environmental Sciences of the CAS. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed international and national articles as well as book chapters in this area.
Host
Magnus Engwall