Stichting Wageningen Research (WENR)
Wageningen Environmental Research (WEnR) is one of the research institutes of Wageningen University and Research (WUR). WEnR offers a combination of practical, innovative and interdisciplinary scientific research across many disciplines related to the green world around us and the sustainable use of our living environment. Aspects of our environment on which Wageningen Environmental Research focuses include soil, water, the atmosphere, the landscape and biodiversity ‒ on a global scale as well as regionally, from the Dutch polders to the Himalayas and from Amsterdam to the Arctic.
Role in the project
Within SYBERAC we will together with partners, develop a system oriented integrated modelling approach to address chemical effects at the landscape level. WEnR will coordinate WP3 of the SYBERAC project on the modelling and upscaling of local information to the landscape. The work is closely linked to the case studies (WP 2) and the risk assessment (WP 4). WENR is involved in all WPs of SYBERAC.
People involved
Louise Wipfler
Louise has a PhD in soil physics. She is a senior researcher on the environmental fate of chemicals but has extended her expertise towards Environmental Risk Assessment in general. She is the project manager of the EFSA project on NTA ERA, AENEAS. Until recently she was the program lead of a large research program on ERA for pesticides for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture.
Bas Buddendorf
Bas has a PhD in geography and ecology. He researches the effects of chemicals on organisms, specifically in ecological modelling and (statistical) data analysis. Bas is a project manager on a project linking exposure and effects at landscape scales and is the program lead for research on ERA for pesticides for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture.
Dana Bashkir
She is an ecotoxicologist that will be conducting her doctoral research within the SYBERAC project. During her masters at University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) she focused on data analysis and predictive modelling of chemical toxicity. In her PhD she will be focusing on ecological modelling in environmental risk assessment.
Paul J. Van den Brink
Paul J. Van den Brink is a full, personal professor at the Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group of Wageningen University. He is involved in supervising and executing international projects on assessing the ecological effects of contaminants like pesticides, veterinary medicines and personal and home care products as well as those of multiple stressors, including climate change, drought, nutrients and salinization.
Pavan Cornelissen
Pavan obtained his PhD degree in soil physics at Wageningen University. He is a researcher who specialises in modelling transport and fate of chemicals in soil and groundwater.