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WG on protection of Animals

SCHEER members (CV - Declarations of interest)

Wim de Jong (Chair and Rapporteur), Retired from Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Teresa Borges, Ministry of Health, General-Directorate of Health, Lisbon, Portugal
Emanuela Testai (Chair), Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Department of Environment and Primary Prevention Mechanism of Toxicity Unit, Rome, Italy
Marco Vighi, IMDEA Water Institute, Alcala’ de Henares (Madrid), Spain

 

External experts

Jeroen Bakkers, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands
CV

Wolfgang Fiedler, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
CV

Penny Hawkins, RSPCA, Southwater, West Sussex, United Kingdom
CV

Almut Köhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe / Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
CV

Nils Ohnesorge, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals, Berlin, Germany
CV

Matthew Parker, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
CV

Julia Schroeder, Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
CV

Kees Van Oers, Wageningen University (WUR), The Netherlands
CV

Lucia Vergauwen, Zebrafish lab, University of Antwerp, Belgium
CV

 

WG on Cobalt in toys

SCHEER members (CV - Declarations of interest)

Emanuela Testai (Chair), Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Department of Environment and Primary Prevention Mechanism of Toxicity Unit, Rome, Italy
Renate Krätke (Rapporteur), Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany
Teresa Borges, Ministry of Health, General-Directorate of Health, Lisbon, Portugal
Peter Hoet, Medical Faculty, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Rodica Ion, National Institute of R&D for Chemistry and Petrochemistry – ICECHIM, Bucharest, Romania
Ana Proykova, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Theo Samaras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

SCCS member (CV - Declarations of interest)

Pieter-Jan Coenraads, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

 

WG on EMF

SCHEER members (CV - Declarations of interest)

Teresa Borges, Ministry of Health, General-Directorate of Health, Lisbon, Portugal
Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
Ana Proykova, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Theodoros Samaras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Marian Scott, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

 

External experts

Clemens Dasenbrock, retired from Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Germany
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Heidi Danker-Hopfe, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Competence Center for Sleep Medicine, Germany
CV

Dirk Geschwentner, Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (Federal Office for Radiation Protection), Germany
CV

Cristian Goiceanu, National Institute of Public Health, Regional Center of Public Health of Iaşi, Romania
CV

Olga Zeni, National Research Council (CNR) – Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA), Italy
CV

 

WG on the update of the guidelines on the benefit-risk assessment of the presence of phthalates in certain medical devices

SCHEER members (CV - Declarations of interest)

Wim de Jong (Chair and Rapporteur), Retired from Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Teresa Borges, Ministry of Health, General-Directorate of Health, Lisbon, Portugal
Rodica Ion, National Institute of R&D for Chemistry and Petrochemistry – ICECHIM, Bucharest, Romania
Renate Krätke (Rapporteur), Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany
Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
Emanuela Testai (Chair), Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Department of Environment and Primary Prevention Mechanism of Toxicity Unit, Rome, Italy

 

SCCS member (CV - Declarations of interest)

Ulrike Bernauer, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

 

External experts

Pascal Amireault, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM, Paris, France
CV

Maria Rosaria Milana, formerly Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Environment and Health Department, Roma, Italy
CV

Tanja Schmidt, Ansbach University of Applied Sciences, Ansbach, Germany
CV

 

Experts from EU Agencies

Francesco Pignatti, European Medicines Agency

Evgenia Stoyanova, European Chemicals Agency

Katharina Volk, European Food Safety Authority

 

Observer

Hubert Chassaigne, European Commission, Joint Research Centre

 

WG on Titanium Dioxide in toys

SCHEER members (CV - Declarations of interest)

Wim de Jong (Chair), Retired from Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Peter Hoet, Medical Faculty, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Rodica Ion, National Institute of R&D for Chemistry and Petrochemistry – ICECHIM, Bucharest, Romania
Renate Krätke, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany
Ana Proykova, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Marian Scott, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
Theo Vermeire, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands
Pim de Voogt, KWR Watercycle Research Institute, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

 

External experts

Herman Autrup, retired from University of Aarhus, Institute of Public Health, Denmark
CV

Natalie von Goetz, Federal office of Public Health (FOPH), Switzerland
CV

 

WG on Toys

SCHEER members (CV - Declarations of interest)

Emanuela Testai (Chair), Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Department of Environment and Primary Prevention Mechanism of Toxicity Unit, Rome, Italy
Renate Krätke (Rapporteur), Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany
Teresa Borges, Ministry of Health, General-Directorate of Health, Lisbon, Portugal
Peter Hoet, Medical Faculty, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Rodica Ion, National Institute of R&D for Chemistry and Petrochemistry – ICECHIM, Bucharest, Romania
Ana Proykova, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Theo Samaras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

SCCS member (CV - Declarations of interest)

Pieter-Jan Coenraads, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

 

WG on Water Quality

SCHEER members (CV - Declarations of interest)

Marian Scott (Chair), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
Thomas Backhaus, University of Gothenburg, Dep. of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden
Teresa Borges, Ministry of Health, General-Directorate of Health, Lisbon, Portugal
Raquel Duarte Davidson, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), United Kingdom
Peter Hoet, Medical Faculty, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Marco Vighi, IMDEA Water Institute, Alcala’ de Henares (Madrid), Spain
Pim de Voogt, KWR Watercycle Research Institute, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

 

External experts

Andrew Johnson, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom
CV

Jan Linders, Retired from National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), the Netherlands
CV

 

WG in former committee (2016 - 2021)

SCHEER - Members Working Groups (2016-2021)