Paulien Adriaanse is a Senior Scientist at Wageningen University & Research. She works on environmental fate and exposure modelling of pesticides in surface waters, mainly in regulatory context. She has been a member of the EFSA Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues since 2015.

Mats Allmyr at the Swedish Chemicals Agency (KEMI) is part of the secretariat of the Plant Protection Council in Sweden. He was previously involved in the regulatory process and the evaluation of environmental fate assessments of plant protection products for registration in Sweden and the Northern EU zone. He is now involved in facilitating the dialogue and exchange of information between stakeholders and authorities in Sweden with a broad focus on forward planning on needs, availability and long term-term sustainability of plant protection methods for the Swedish agriculture.

Roman Ashauer is an Environmental Scientist, specialising in ecotoxicology and environmental modelling, and has been working as Senior Scientist Eco-modelling at Syngenta in Basel since this year. In 2007 he started with Eawag in Switzerland and joined the University of York in 2013 where he led a research group until 2018.

Sabine Beulke is a Risk Assessor at Enviresearch with expertise in the environmental fate of chemicals, regulatory risk assessment for pesticides and modelling. She previously worked for Cranfield University and Fera Science. She has been actively involved in the development of regulatory recommendations, including guidance on aged sorption, on behalf of the UK CRD.

Arnaud Boivin is the Head of the Ecotoxicology and E-Fate Risk Assessment Unit for pesticides and fertilisers at ANSES. He joined ANSES in 2007 and he also used to work for INRA and USDA/ARS.

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.

Andrew Chapple is a Bayer Research Fellow, working in the Crop Science Division of Bayer AG in Monheim, Germany, in the area of environmental exposure modelling with especial reference to spray and dust drift.

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.

James Hingston leads a team of 20 regulatory environmental fate specialists at the UK competent authority with responsibility for pesticides, biocides, detergents and general chemicals (Chemicals Regulation Division, part of the UK Health and Safety Executive).

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.

Dennis Kalf is Senior Advisor Specialist Water Quality and Pesticides at the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in The Hague. He works with the government for more than 25 years and has many years of experience in the field of monitoring and water quality with the focus on 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.

Tim MacDonald is an Environmental Scientist and joined the Environmental Assessment Directorate of Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency in 2010 where he is a Section Head responsible for managing a group of evaluators who do environmental risk assessment for chemicals under re-evaluation.

Karin Nienstedt works for the European Commission, in the DG for Health and Food Safety, Unit Pesticides and Biocides. She is Head of the Sector Pesticides - placing on the market. Her background is in biology and crop protection. Previously she worked as Scientific Officer for EFSA’s PPR Panel and as Group Leader in a GLP certified contract laboratory and consultancy.

Cathrine Skaar Hoel is an Adviser at the Norwegian Food Safety Authority in the National National Approvals Department. She is working on risk assessment and is part of the environmental fate and behaviour group.

Christian Stamm is a Biologist and the Deputy Head of the Environmental Chemistry Department at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag). He has been working for the EAWAG since 2002.

Michael Stemmer started to work at the Austrian AGES in 2005 as an Environmental Risk Evaluator for the use of pesticides.

Aaldrik Tiktak is working as a Senior Researcher Soil and Water at the Netherlands PBL Environmental Assessment Agency in Bilthoven and is member of the EFSA PPR Panel. He is involved in policy evaluation and environmental risk assessment of pesticides.

Wiebke Tüting has been working as a Scientist in the Department of PPP at the German BVL since 2007. She is responsible for post-registration monitoring and risk management issues in the authorisation procedure of PPP. One of her main tasks is to develop risk mitigation measures for groundwater protection.

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

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