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. She is currently a member of the EFSA WG on the revision of the terrestrial guidance and has been a member of several other EFSA WGs on ERA.

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.

Steven Droge is an Environmental Scientist at Wageningen University & Research. Steven has built a career in science, holding several postdoctoral research positions over the years. He also has experience in the regulatory field, having worked as Ecotoxicology assessor for the Dutch Board for the Authorisation of Plant Protection Products and Biocides.

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.

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.

Martin Hansen is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering at DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Sustain. In 2024, he left the Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University to join the DTU.

James Hingston leads a team of 26 regulatory environmental fate specialists at the Chemicals Regulation Division, part of the UK Health and Safety Executive. CRD is the national regulator for the whole of the UK, on behalf of the UK government and the devolved administrations, with responsibility for pesticides, biocides, detergents and general chemicals under REACH.

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.

Gunnar Kahl studied Geoecology followed by a research position in a collaboration of universities in Germany and Thailand. After having worked in the modelling group of BASF he joined knoell Germany as an environmental fate modeller. In 2012 he was appointed to become the Managing Director of the knoell subsidiary in Thailand. Since 2020 he has been working as a Senior Expert Environmental Fate and Modelling at knoell Germany in Hamburg.

Dimitra Kardassi is a Scientific Officer in European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) with more than 10 years experience in food safety related areas and in managerial positions in Hellenic Food Authority.

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.

Werner Pol is currently a Team Manager Expertise Fate and Ecotoxicology Plant Protection at the Dutch Board for the Authorisation of Plant Protection Products and Biocides (Ctgb) in Ede, The Netherlands. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the environmental fate and exposure assessment of substances and plant protection products from previous roles at Ctgb and holds a M.Sc and B.Sc in environmental science.

Anton Poot is a Geochemist and Environmental Scientist and has been working in the field of modelling and monitoring groundwater at both governmental and contract research organisations. He has been employed as Environmental Risk Assesssor at Ctgb for the past 13 years. As a representative from Ctgb, Anton was member of the SETAC EMAG-Pest working group on groundwater monitoring and chair of the current SETAC Spatial Distributed Leaching Modelling working group.

Signe Bonde Rasmussen is trained within environmental aspects of both soil chemistry and physics and has been working at the Danish Environmental Agency (EPA) since 2018. During the past years her attention has been focused on mathematical modelling of water and solute transport in the unsaturated zone of the soil profile, as well as several different aspects of groundwater monitoring of pesticides (targeted and “untargeted”).

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.