Call for Papers - Fate and Effects of Micro(Nano)plastics in the Context of Research and Regulation

Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert
Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert is a distinguished environmental scientist and SETAC fellow affiliated with Goethe Universität, Germany where he heads the Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Environmental Toxicology. With expertise in ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry, he's led groundbreaking research on pollutant impacts in aquatic ecosystems. Noteworthy achievements include pioneering methods for assessing environmental risks and advocating for sustainable solutions. His contributions have shaped global environmental policy and earned him acclaim as one of the foremost authorities in this field.

Prof. Dr. Guilherme Malafaia
Prof. Dr. Malafaia (Guilherme) is a Department of Biological Sciences Professor at the Goiano Federal Institute (IF Goiano) (Goiás State, Brazil). He received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Biological Science and a doctorate in Environmental Science. He also carried out seven postdoctoral internships in Brazil and abroad. He coordinates the Laboratory of Toxicology Applied to the Environment (LabTox) at IF Goiano, focusing on the ecotoxicological assessment of emerging pollutants. He has published over 360 journal papers and is a reviewer for more than 170 international journals.

Dr. Omowunmi Fred-Ahmadu
Omowunmi Fred-Ahmadu holds PhD and MSc degrees in Environmental Chemistry from Covenant University, Nigeria. She also received an Executive MBA in Management and BSc Chemistry degrees from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. A recipient of awards like the ACU Blue Charter Fellowship for microplastics research and AGNES-PAWS, her research spans microplastic pollution, trace metals, climate change, toxicology, and risk assessment. She is a member of the ACS, the RSC, and the SETAC. She is currently a lecturer at Afe Babalola University, Nigeria.

Prof. Dr. Oluniyi O. Fadare
Prof. Dr. Fadare, has a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing and M.Tech in Analytical Chemistry from Nigerian universities. His research focuses on microplastics and emerging pollutants' impacts on water, food safety, and human health, utilizing advanced analytical instruments and machine learning. He coordinated projects on microplastics and associated chemicals at the University of California, Riverside. He is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. He actively engages with SETAC and has served on its program committee.

Prof. Dr. Annika Jahnke
Annika Jahnke, Head of the Department of Exposure Science at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, Germany, combines environmental and human health assessment using identical tools. With a PhD in Environmental Chemistry (2007) and a Professorship at RWTH Aachen University (since 2020), she focuses on environmental weathering of plastics, fate and impacts of plastic-associated chemicals, and novel passive equilibrium sampling to investigate chemical activity driving the partitioning, fate, and effects of environmental pollutants, particularly bioaccumulation in top predators.