Experience

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  Wageningen university

  Jan 1999 - Mar 2006

  Researcher and phd-student

  PhD research on PAHs and PCBs in floodplain lake ecosystems: bioavailability, uptake, food web interactions, effects of ecological structure on uptake of persistent compounds.

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  Rivm national institute for public health and the environment

  Jul 2006 - now

  Current:* Policy advice on pharmaceuticals and the environment at the ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. Secretariat of the Dutch national interdepartmental working group on pharmaceuticals and the environment.* Experienced and professional workshop organiser, facilitator and day chair * Project coordinator ‘policy advice on environmental risk of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals’* Work Package-lead of EU PREMIER and TransPharm projects* Member of the AdHoc working group on pharmaceuticals in the environment under the Pharmaceutical Committee* Member of various other (inter)national working groups and research consortia* Co-organiser and co-chair of the informal European assessor’s group for ERA of human pharmaceuticals (yearly meetings)Past:* Environmental risk assessments of veterinary and human pharmaceuticals. National, centralized, decentralized and mutual recognition procedures. Prioritization of ‘old’ veterinary pharmaceuticals.* Project coordinator ‘environmental risk assessment of veterinary pharmaceuticals’. * Member of the Environmental Risk Assessment Working Party, European Medicines Agency (London)* Derivation of environmental quality standards (EU-Water Framework Directive) and other activities for the WFD.* Various tasks on PBT (Persistence, Bioaccumulation, Toxicity) and POP (Persistent Organic Pollutants) assessments. Member of RIVM PBT epxert group. * Member of the RIVM drinking water team Show less Risk assessor for chemical substances in the environment. Member of the Environmental Risk Assessment Working Party (ERA-WP) at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Coordinator for environmental risk assessment of (veterinary) pharmaceuticals and policy advicement on environmental risk of pharmaceuticals.Derivation of environmental quality standards (Water Framework Directive)Member of RIVM's expert team on Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) compoundsProjects on drinking water quality Show less

  • Senior advisor Pharmaceuticals and the Environment

    Mar 2015 - now

  • Environmental risk assessor for chemical substances

    Jul 2006 - Mar 2015