Almut Bitterhof is a Food Chemist and has been working at the European Commission (DG SANTE) since 1999. During her career, she has worked in the areas of inspection and controls, relations with agencies and on policy development for contaminants and pesticide residues. Currently, she is Deputy Head of the Unit “pesticides and biocides” in DG SANTE and leads the pesticide residues sector.

Alan R. Boobis retired from his chair at Imperial College London in June 2017 and is now Emeritus Professor of Toxicology. His research interests include mechanistic toxicology, risk assessment and the effects of mixtures. He has been a member of the EFSA PPR Panel and the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain. He has also been a member/Chair of the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues and of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (residues of veterinary drugs) for approx. 20 years. He currently chairs the UK Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment.

Polly Boon is an exposure expert who has been working in the field of dietary exposure modelling since 1999, first at Wageningen Food Safety Research and since 2010 at the RIVM. She is project leader of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Chemical Food Safety and is a member of several EFSA workgroups.

Monika Bross has been working at BASF Agricultural Center in Limburgerhof for more than 25 years. Within BASF she has been involved in all types of residue and metabolism studies, but also in dietary exposure assessment and the preparation of dossiers for international submissions (EU, US, Asia, Brazil, JMPR). She is member of association expert teams dealing with residue related topics (including MRL setting).

Dee Clarke has been working within the crop protection industry for more than 30 years, starting out in residue chemistry and latterly in human risk assessment. She is a Principal Technical Expert in Human Safety at Syngenta and leads the CropLife Europe Residue Definition Group; she is also a co-lead of the OECD Working Group on Residue Definition.

Cheryl Cleveland currently works in BASF Global Consumer Safety for the Crop Protection business in North Carolina, USA. Previous to BASF, she was a long-term employee of the Dow/Dow AgroSciences businesses. Her 30-year career as a registrant within the agricultural industry spans roles ranging from the conduct of GLP studies, to MRL harmonisation/trade analysis to the application of risk assessment principles for human health. She previously chaired the CropLife America Dietary Team and has been an active member within Crop International, CropLife Europe and the CARES NG technical team.

Michael Doherty’s professional career started with the Pesticide Degradation Laboratory in the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, where he spent 13 years working on pesticide residue profiles in soil and environmental modeling. In 1997, Michael joined the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs’ Health Effects Division as a residue chemist and risk assessor. Over the years, his role in OPP has taken a more international focus as a member of the OECD’s Residue Chemistry Expert Group and as a member of the FAO panel to the JMPR, for which he is currently serving as chair.

Jean Lou Dorne has been working as a Senior Scientific Officer in the Scientific Committee and Emerging Risks Unit at EFSA since 2006. His work focuses on chemical risk assessment and toxicology including mixture risk assessment, the implementation of new approach methodologies (NAMs) and the development and publication of EFSA’s chemical hazards database.

Kathrin Gottlob is a Food Chemist. Since 2007 she has been working at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) evaluating biocide residues in food. She is a member of the ad-hoc working group ARTFood (Assessment of Residue Transfer to Food) which supports the Biocidal Products Committee with issues related to human exposure to biocides through food.

Tracy Hambridge has been working at Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) for over 20 years. Her primary role is conducting dietary exposure assessments for a range of food chemicals and purposes including food standards development and total diet studies. She has participated as an invited expert on exposure assessment for the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) and has sat on national expert panels for evaluating food chemicals.

Caroline Harris is the Centre Director for Chemical Regulation and Food Safety in Exponent International’s UK office. After many years as a Regulator at CRD, she continues to be involved with MRLs, import tolerances and pesticide residues in international trade. She also remains highly active in the field of consumer risk assessment.

Karsten Hohgardt is the Head of the unit responsible for risk management in the field of toxicology and residue behaviour at BVL. Since 2006 he has also been Deputy Head of Department “Plant Protection Products“. His main experience lies in MRL setting and residue behaviour.

Stephanie Melching-Kollmuss has been working as European and Global Regulatory Toxicologist for plant protection products at BASF since 2006. Her main research interest is endocrine disruption and combined toxicity assessment and she continues to be involved in ECETOC and Cefic LRI projects on mixture and combination toxicity projects. She is member of the CropLife Europe Endocrine Disruption Expert Group and chairs the Cumulative Risk Assessment subgroup of CropLife Europe. She was involved as a Scientific Advisory Board Member in the EuroMix Project.

Luc Mohimont is a Senior Scientific Officer in the Pesticide Residues Unit of the European Food Safety Authority with long experience in the dietary exposure assessment to plant protection products and cumulative risk assessment.

Christian Prohaska studied food and biotechnology in Vienna. He worked for public bodies dealing with the risk assessment of plant protection products before he gained a postgraduate degree in toxicology and started working at AGES in 2002.

Hermine Reich has been working at EFSA since 2006. As Lead Senior Scientific Officer in the Unit on Pesticide Residues she is responsible for developing and coordinating cross-cutting scientific topics related to EFSA’s risk assessment activities under Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, in particular in the field of dietary risk assessment, assessment of MRL applications, and development of risk assessment methodologies.

Claire Stephenson is a Senior Global Expert in residues and dietary exposure at ADAMA. Prior to this, she has worked both in consultancy and for the UK regulatory authority where she was the technical lead for MRLs. She has represented the UK as a technical expert at a range of EC and EFSA meetings and holds a PhD in biochemistry.

Agnieszka Szturc-Koetsier has been working at the Dutch Board of Plant Protection Products and Biocides (Ctgb) as a Scientific Assessor Residues since 2014. She is involved in the assessment of active substances, MRL setting and authorisation of plant protection products. As a residue expert she regularly takes part in Pesticide Peer Review Meetings organised by EFSA.

Jacob van Klaveren coordinated the European funded projects ACROPOLIS and EuroMix aiming to improve combined exposure to multiple chemicals in Europe. Since 2015, Jacob has been coordinating the EFSA-RIVM partnership on mixtures of pesticides. From January 2020 onwards he has been participating in the interim management board of the Horizon Europe Partnership for the Assessment of the Risk from Chemicals (PARC) and has been responsible for coordinating the work programme innovation in regulatory risk assessment.