Timo Hamers

Background

About Timo Hamers

I am an environmental toxicologist with training in environmental sciences, aquatic ecotoxicology and air pollution. My expertise lies in the application, development and optimization of small-scale in vitro bioassays to determine toxicity profiles of sets of individual compounds and complex environmental mixtures of pollutants as found in sediments, passive samplers, and food items. Within several international projects, I have played an active role in the hazard assessment of persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, obesogens, flame retardants, and other house-dust pollutants with a special focus on endocrine disruption and neurotoxicity. I have also actively contributed to the human and environmental risk assessment paragraphs of several EU-funded studies. In addition to his research activities, I am a lecturer in toxicology in BSc, MSc, and PhD courses.