Project support
 
The networking partners that support CEFSER are the excellent research centres like:
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 CHIRON AS from Norway
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 Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije University from the Netherlands
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 Spanish Instituto de Investigaciones Quimicas y Ambientales from Barcelona (IIQAB-CSIC)
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 Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) from Prague, Czech Republic
 
Each of the partners brings complementary background top expertise and experience to the project:
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foremost knowledge in the high quality, reliable and validated qualitative and quantitative analysis of many pollutants, including common and emerging pollutants
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deep involvement in the advanced UPLC application in common and emerging contaminants
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significant experiences in large and important EU projects related to the areas we also wish to contribute
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high publication records
 
The CEFSER start-up meeting at Mersin, Turkey, February 2009
 
All our networking partners convinced us that we lined in the right way of becoming the Centre of Excellence in Food Safety and Emerging Risks, strongly supporting all of our envisaged activities.
 
 
Key personnel from these instutions are:
 
CHIRON AS
 
Jon Eigill Johansen, PhD: Chair and Director of new products strategies at Chiron AS. Ph.D. in the field of natural products synthesis and structure elucidation at the Norwegian Institute of Technology 1976, Research fellowships during 1976-1980 at University of California, Berkeley and ETH, Zürich. Research Scientist at SINTEF, Trondheim 1980-1983; He established Chiron in 1984. Several publications in the field of environmental chemistry. Project coordinator for an EU-project on PCB synthesis (Marie Curie Host Fellowship contract, 2003-2006), and partner project leader in the EU-project COMICS (2007-2009). Chair for the 21st International Symposium for Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (ISPAC 21), Trondheim, 2007.
 
Huiling Liu, PhD: Research and development director at Chiron AS. PhD at the Norwegian University of Natural Sciences and Technology, Trondheim, in 2001. Research experience from the Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (China) and Tsucuba University (Japan). Specialist in chemical and enzymatic synthesis, and experience in drug synthesis, chiral chemistry and synthesis of POPs and PAHs. Several publications in the field of environmental chemistry.
 
Meeting with Dr. H. Liu at the RAFA Symposium in Prague, Czech Republic, November 2009
 
Institute for environmental studies (IVM), Vrije University (VU)
 
Prof. Dr. Jacob de Boer holds the Chair of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology at the VU and is the head of the C&B department. He has worked for more than 30 years on the environmental contamination of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and in particular on method development and quality assurance. He is an advisor for EFSA (i.e. on PFCs), UNEP and various other international organisations. He has coordinated a number of European research projects on method development and CRM production, e.g. CHRONO, BROC, Difference and Diac.
 
Stefan van Leeuwen (PhD) works on food safety and environmental research with an emphasis on persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Since the early 2000s he has worked on method development, food contamination and QA/QC of PFCs. He was WP-leader for QA workpackage within Perforce and he has organised two world wide interlaboratory studies on PFCs in water and fish. He has gained broad experience with production of food-type CRMs and method validation schemes within the EU projects CHRONO, BROC and DIFFERENCE.
 
Instituto de investigaciones quimicas y ambientales de Barcelona (IIQAB-CSIC)
 
Prof. Mira Petrovic, PhD: Since 1999 Research scientist at the Department of Environmental Chemistry, IIQAB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain (ICREA Research Professor since 2006). 1995 Ph.D. in Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb , Croatia . She was involved in 4 FP EU funded project SANDRINE, PRISTINE; 5 th FP EU funded projects EXPRESS-IMMUNOTECH and P-THREE on the analysis of surfactants and related endocrine disruptors. She was also in charge at CSIC of the thematic network SEDNET and the accompanying measure SOWA, and project manager of EMCO (STREP coordinated by CSIC) funded within the INCO-WBC. Currently, she is Project Manager of the 6FP EU funded project INNOVA-MED (Coordinated by CSIC), and at CSIC project manager for coordination action NORMAN and Integrated project AQUATERRA, where she is the leader of the subproject MONITOR. Her main expertise is in the field of analytical environmental chemistry, specifically analysis of organic micropollutants and study of their fate and behaviour in aquatic systems and during wastewater and drinking water treatment. She edited 3 books on emerging contaminants, published over 80 scientific papers in journals of SCI and 17 book chapters (Number of cites: 1138; Hirsch index 21). Currently she supervises 4 Ph.D. theses.
 
Institute of chemical technology (ICT), Prague, Czech Republic
 
Prof. Jana Hajšlová, PhD: full professor and a head of Accredited Laboratory for analysis of food and environmental contaminants, toxicants and biologically active compounds at the Department of Food Chemistry and Analysis at ICT; her current teaching/supervision responsibilities are within courses on basic principles of food analysis, chemical food safety and organic trace analysis. Her research interests focus on the fate of contaminants and toxicants in food chains and issues related to the implementation of novel strategies for their analysis. Her international memberships are prestigious: program committee “Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology” EU 7 th Framework program, Advisory Group ”Food Quality and Safety”, EU 6 th Framework program, EU Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks, SCENIHR (Health & Consumer Protection DG), member of International Editorial Board-Journal of Food Additives and Contaminants, WHO National contact point for Global Environmental Monitoring Programme (GEMS/Food EURO). Prof. J. Hajšlová has participated in many international research projects, e.g. CON ff IDENCE, TRUEFOOD, BIOCOP, TRACE, HEATOX, FIRE, COST actions 629, 924, 926, 927, 636, etc. She has published widely on organic contaminants and food.