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SCHER Members (April 2009 – March 2013)

The members of the Scientific Committee can be contacted through the Secretariat, details of which are listed below.

Alphabetical list of the scientists appointed by the Commission as members of the Scientific Committee set up by Commission Decision 2008/721/EC of 5 August 2008.

More information on this committee on the Register of Commission Expert Groups

 

Prof. Ursula Ackermann-Liebrich:
Swiss School of Public Health, Zürich, Switzerland.

Dr Rolf Altenburger:
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany.

Prof. Herman Autrup:
Vice-Chair of the Committee
Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

Prof. Denis Bard:
École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique (EHESP), Rennes, France.

Prof. Wolfgang Dekant:
Professor at the Institut für Toxikologie, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.

Prof. Pim De Voogt:
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Prof. Arielle Gard:
University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.

Prof. Em. Helmut Greim:
Chair of the Committee
Retired

Dr Ari Hirvonen:
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland.

Prof. Colin Janssen:
Professor of Ecotoxicology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Dr Renate Krätke:
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany.

Prof. Jan Linders:
Risk evaluator, expert in Pesticides, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands.

Dr Stella Michaelidou-Canna :
State General Laboratory, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Prof. Borut Peterlin:
University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Dr Jose Tarazona:
Director of Department of the Environment INIA, Spanish National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology, Madrid, Spain.

Dr Emanuela Testai:
Senior Scientist, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Prof. Marco Vighi:
Professor of Ecology and Applied Ecology, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

 

Previous members:

Prof. Peter Calow (Until March 2011)
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.

Dr John Davison (Until November 2010)
French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Paris, France.

 

Contact

European Commission
DG Health & Consumers
Directorate C: Public Health
Unit C2: Health information
L-2920 Luxembourg
E-mail: SANCO-C2-SCHER AT ec.europa.eu