Highlights

Paulien Adriaanse is a Senior Scientist at Wageningen University & Research. She works on environmental fate and exposure modelling of pesticides mainly in the area of surface waters. She has been a member of the EFSA Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues since 2015. Since September 2019 she has been a member of the EFSA WG on the Revision of the EFSA Guidance on the risk assessment for bees.

Colin Brown is a Professor in Environmental Science at the University of York/UK. He has more than 20 years experience of research into the fate and effects of organic contaminants in the environment.

Joachim Dayteg joined the Institute for Plant Protection Products of AGES Vienna in 2008 as an Environmental Fate and Behaviour Risk Assessor. He is the initiator of the harmonisation efforts in fate and behaviour in the Central zone.

Emilie Farama has been the Deputy Head of the Ecotoxicology and E-Fate Risk Assessment Unit for Pesticides and Fertilisers at ANSES since 2018. She joined ANSES in 2006 as an Environmental Fate and Behaviour Risk Assessor for active substances and plant protection products.

Bernhard Jene is an Environmental Scientist at BASF in Limburgerhof with a PhD in soil physics. He has more than 20 years of experience in the area of environmental fate and exposure modelling of pesticides.

Franziska Jentzsch is a chemist with interest in photolytically processes, analytically methods and the behaviour of chemicals in the environment. She works in the Unit of Plant Protection Products at the German Environment Agency (UBA).

Maarten Klunder is working as a Team Leader (fate and behaviour) at the plant protection product authorisation authority in the Netherlands (Ctgb). He has worked nine years in the field of fate and behaviour of pesticides of which two years in the industry and seven years as Dutch Regulatory Authority (Ctgb).

Volker Laabs has been with BASF for 9 years and is currently leading the Global Product Stewardship Team. He has more than 15 years experience in the area of environmental fate of pesticides.

Christopher Leake is an Environmental Safety Manager at Bayer Crop Science Division responsible for the areas of environmental fate, ecotoxicology and risk assessment. He has over 30 years of experience in this area.

Neil Mackay is an Environmental Fate Modelling specialist in FMC Agricultural Solutions. He is active in strategic product development and regulatory exposure and risk assessment activities. His previous work experience includes employment as a Senior Research Scientist in the Environment Safety Assessment Group of DuPont Crop Protection and as a consultant to both industry and government bodies, primarily in Europe.

Andy Massey works for the Chemicals Regulation Division of the Health and Safety Executive in York, where he is involved in environmental fate assessment of chemicals for registration purposes in the UK.

Anna Peters is a Chemist and has been working as a Scientist in the Department of Plant Protection Products (PPP) at the German BVL since 2019.

Peter Rainbird is an Environmental Fate Modelling and regulatory specialist in Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Switzerland. He is principally engaged in setting strategy for regulatory exposure, risk assessment and exposure modelling for European risk assessments. With a background in computational fluid mechanics in the environment, his previous work experience includes employment as technical software engineer in various fields including space science, race car aerodynamics and windfarm design.

Nadja Stadlinger is an Ecotoxicologist and joined the Swedish Chemicals Agency (KEMI) in Sundbyberg, Sweden, in 2021. Since then she has been working at the unit of environmental assessment with pesticide fate evaluations. She has a previous background as a researcher at Stockholm University.

Michael Stemmer started to work at the Austrian AGES in 2005 as an Environmental Risk Evaluator for the use of pesticides. He has been a member of the EFSA PPR Panel from 2015-2018. He joined the working groups on PEC in soil, aged sorption and FOCUS surface water repair action.

Harry Vereecken is a Professor and the Director of the Institute Agrosphere within the Department of Bio- and Geosciences at the Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Janice Villeneuve has been working with the Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency in the Environmental Assessment Directorate since 2000. She has 22 years of experience working in the area of environmental risk assessment of pesticides and has experience in many aspects of environmental risk assessment and mitigation. Recently Janice has moved to the role of National Manager Water Monitoring.

Marc Voltz has been working as Research Director at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment,(INRAE) in Montpellier. He used to be head of the Laboratory for the Study of Soil-Agrosystem-Hydrosystem interactions (LISAH), a research unit under INRAE, IRD and Institut Agro, and then was leader of the air, water and soil research topic at the Environment and Agronomy Division at INRAE. Marc is also an Adjunct Professor in Soil Hydrology at L'Institut Agro, the School of Agronomy in Montpellier.

Mark Williams has a background in biochemistry and biomedicine and is a Policy Officer in the Pesticides and Biocides Unit at DG SANTE. Mark is working primarily on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, focussed on topics related to the approval of active substances and the decision making process for new substances, renewal of approval and confirmatory information. In addition, Mark works on the development of new legislation and guidance, including most recently the new implementing rules for renewal of approval and the guidance on emergency authorisations. He is also involved in various activities related to groundwater and drinking water, and is responsible for the implementation of the Plant Protection Products Application Management System (PPPAMS). Before joining the Commission in 2015 he worked at the Health and Safety Executive in the UK.

Mechteld ter Horst is a Scientist at Wageningen Environmental Research. She is part of a team that develops and applies the pesticide fate models for surface waters, TOXSWA and leaching to groundwater, PEARL. She is working in national and international projects on fate and exposure modelling of pesticides and on development of guidance and methods for the environmental risk assessment of pesticides. She is experienced in higher-tier modelling techniques as calibration, sensitivity analysis and optimisation of model parameters.