Martin Scheringer

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Senior Scientist at ETH Zürich

Institute for Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics
Department of Environmental Systems Science
ETH Zürich
Universitätstr. 16, Room CHN G 48
CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 632 30 62
Fax:   +41 44 632 11 89
e-mail: scheringer(-at-)usys.ethz.ch

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Positions held

• Senior Scientist, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, since 2018

• Professor of Environmental Chemistry, RECETOX, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, since 2015, ad-personam title of professor bestowed by the President of the Czech Republic in 2019

• Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Substance Dynamics, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, 2014–2015

• Research Scientist, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, 2005–2018

• Research Associate, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, 1999–2004

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, ETH Zürich, 1996–1998.

• Lecturer, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 1997–present.

• Lecturer, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, 1999–present.

Professional Qualification

• Member of the Working Group on Nanosilver of the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) of the European Commission (2012–2014).

• Member of the Board and Chair of the International Panel on Chemical Pollution, IPCP (since 2007).

• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Science & Technology Letters (2013–2014).

• Member of the roster of experts of the POP Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (since 2007).

• Member of the Board of the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Societey, GDCh (2007–2010).

• Member of the selection committee for dissertation fellowships of the DBU (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt) (2009–2017).

• Chair of the Board of the Food Packaging Forum Foundation (since 2012).

• Co-author of chapters on chemicals in UNEP's 5th Global Environment Outlook (2012) and in the UNEP Year Book 2013.

• Habilitation at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences of ETH Zürich (April 2005).

Education

• Dissertation at the Department of Environmental Sciences of ETH Zürich with a thesis on "Persistence and Spatial Range as Indicators for the Assessment of Environmental Chemicals" (July 1996). Degree: Doctor of Science, DSc.

• Diploma in Chemistry from Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, October 1990. Diploma work on "Orientational Ordering in Lipid Monolayers: A Two-Dimensional Model of Rigid Rods Grafted onto a Lattice", Institute of Physics, Universität Mainz, Germany.

• Student scholarship (1985–1990) and doctoral scholarship (1992–1996) of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)