Behaviour of Pesticides in Air, Soil and Water

Paulien Adriaanse is a Senior Scientist at Wageningen University & Research. She works on environmental fate and exposure modelling of pesticides in the area of surface waters, as well as on how to link exposure in the field to ecotoxicological effects observed in (e.g. laboratory) experiments with imposed exposure regimes. She has been a member of the EFSA Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues (PPR) since 2015. From September 2019 up to May 2023 she has been a member of the EFSA WG on the Revision of the EFSA Guidance on the risk assessment for bees, and from May 2022 up to May 2023 of the EFSA WG on the Statement of the PPR Panel on design and conduct of groundwater monitoring studies.

Anne Alix joined Dow AgroSciences, now Corteva Agriscience, in 2011, as distinguished laureate in Policy and Risk Management for Europe, Middle East and Africa, where she advises on Sustainability policies and precision applications. She has been working in the area of plant protection products risk assessment for 23 years. After a PhD in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) at the University of Rennes, Anne joined the French National Institute for Research in Agronomy (INRA) as an ecotoxicologist in the scientific unit for the risk assessment of crop protection products. Anne was nominated head of the Environment and Ecotoxicology risk assessment unit at the French Agency on the safety of Food (AFSSA, now ANSES), where she initiated scientific collaborations with the pesticide unit of EFSA. Anne then joined the French Ministry of Agriculture as the deputy head of the Section for Regulation of Plant Protection Products and fertilizers, in charge of the implementation of risk mitigation measures for pesticides and of post registration monitoring.

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.

Vera Felix da Graca Silva has a PhD in environmental sciences from Wageningen University. She is a researcher in Soil Physics and Land Management (SLM) at Wageningen University since 2019. She is the scientific manager of the H2020SPRINT project (Sustainable Plant Protection A global health approach) and involved in the monitoring efforts of pesticide residues in EU and African soils (via the LUCAS 2015/2018 survey, and the H2020 Soils4Africa project, respectively).

Mónica García Aguilar is a Policy Officer at the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) of the European Commission. She is responsible for amending the EU Regulation concerning the labelling on plant protection products, developing a guidance on risk mitigation measures and handling of the decision-making procedure for chemical and micro-organisms active substances. She is also coordinating a group of technical experts from Member States and EFSA that provide scientific and regulatory guidance on environmental topics. Before that, she worked as researcher in a Horizon 2020 project on the uptake of innovative spraying equipment in Europe. She also worked in the Stockholm Environmental Institute contributing to research projects on water and waste management governance in Colombia and Bolivia. She holds a Double Degree Master Programme in Environmental Sciences in Europe from the University of Copenhagen and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Rena Isemer is an Ecotoxicology Expert specialising in non-target plants at Bayer Crop Science Division in Monheim, Germany. A molecular biologist by training, Rena has previously worked as research associate at the University of Kiel.

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.

Marion Junghans is the Team Leader Risk Assessment at the Swiss Centre Ecotox. Her areas of expertise include the risk assessment for micropollutants in water, the prediction of mixture toxicity and OECD test methods in the fields of aquatic ecotoxicology, biological degradability and environmental behaviour, as well as risk communication.

Marc Lamshöft has a professional background in chemistry and 20 years of experience as Laboratory Head and Metabolism & Kinetics Expert. He joined Bayer Crop Science Division in 2014 and is currently Head of Laboratory at Bayer Crop Science Division.

Chris Lythgo has a background in agricultural chemistry, soil science and microbial biotransformations. He is working at EFSA, in the PLANTS Unit assessing the environmental exposure consequent from the intended uses of plant protection products and since 2005 he has been a Team Leader of one of the risk assessment teams involved in the Pesticides Peer Review activities of EFSA. He is involved in the peer review of the Draft Assessment Reports prepared by the Competent Authorities of the EU Member States. Chris has worked in the field of regulatory risk assessment of pesticides for over 28 years.

Rafael Muñoz-Carpena is a Full Professor in Hydrology and Water Quality at the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida. He focuses on hydrological modelling and monitoring of complex integrated environmental systems. He developed the Vegetative Filter Strips Modeling System (VFSMOD) that has been accepted as a reference tool for study and design of vegetative filter strips and is used regularly to control runoff pollution by state and federal agencies, and by research institutes in more than 20 countries. He is author or co-authored of peer-reviewed journal articles and technical publications, books, and book chapters, and he is a highly sought after speaker worldwide.

Natalia Nogueira de Diego is the Technical Adviser of the Plant Protection Products Register in the General Directorate for Plant and Forest Health of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fish and Food (MAPA) in Madrid. Since 2017 she has been responsible for active substances in the Plant Protection Products Register and is a Spanish representative in the SCoPAFF (Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed) of the European Commission. She is also a representative of Spain in the PAI (Post Approval Issues Group), IZSC (Interzonal Standard Committee) of the European Commission and the Southern Zone Steering Committee.

Dieter Schäfer has a professional background in environmental sciences and 25 years of experience in the environmental fate and exposure assessment of pesticides. He was the Head of the E-fate Expert Group and the Environmental Exposure Modelling Team at Bayer Crop Science Division in Monheim/Germany and is currently the Head of Environmental Exposure leading a team of experimental, modelling and assessment experts.

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.

Aaldrik Tiktak is a Senior Researcher Soil and Water at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in The Hague. He is involved in policy evaluation and environmental risk assessment of pesticides and is one of the chief developers of the PEARL model. He has been a member of the EFSA Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues (PPR) since 2012. From May 2022 up to May 2023 he was chair of the EFSA working group on the Statement of the PPR Panel on design and conduct of groundwater monitoring studies. He is also co-chair of the SETAC working group on Spatially Distributed Leaching Models (SDLM).

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