Osnabrück University (UOS)
Founded in 1974, Osnabrück University (OU) is a young, vibrant university renowned for its research and teaching. The Research Group of Systems Science has many years of experience in the area of modelling environmental systems, including ecosystems, and their pollution, to forecast their chemical pollution and to analyse and predict related effects
Role in the project
People involved
Andreas Focks
The main target for UOS in SYBERAC will be the development and application of robust, generalized TK/TD models, integrating multiple exposure pathways without prior knowledge of physiological characteristics. We will take advantage of ongoing project work, a.o. within EFSA-funded projects comprising both experimental and TK/TD modelling work on the importance of routes of exposure for non-target arthropods. We will further optimize the structure of such TK/TD models and develop and provide robust and efficient methods to calibrate these models based on minimal experimental data focusing on the species selected for the case studies. TK/TD modelling from this task will be integrated in the SYBERAC modelling train
He is professor for environmental Systems Modelling at the department of mathematics and computer science at Osnabrück University since 2021. His work is focussed on the analysis and simulation of fate and potential effects of chemicals and other stressors in environmental systems, using a broad portfolio of methods, ranging from differential equation-based exposure models, to toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic (TKTD) models, to equation- and individual-based simulation (IBM) models at the population level.
Eva Alexandri
She is an Agriculturist and Environmental Toxicologist with a focused expertise in assessing the toxicity of chemicals, particularly pesticides, on aquatic organisms. In the context of the SYBERAC project, Eva will contribute to the development and establishment of TK/TD models that correlate chemical ecotoxicity to its broader impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services.