Contributors to the AIRMON themed issue

Atsuko Araki

Atsuko Araki was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1969. She completed a B.Eng. in Biological Science and Technology, and then worked as a research technician and support staff for Banyu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Tsukuba Research Institute for 10 years. In 2006, she entered Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine and received a PhD in Public Health Sciences. Currently she is an assistant professor of Hokkaido University, Center for Environmental and Health Sciences. Her current research interests focus on epidemiological studies of environmental exposure, indoor air quality and children's health.

Kevin Ashley

Kevin Ashley was born in Hammond, Indiana in 1958 and was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. Ashley received his PhD in physical–analytical chemistry from the University of Utah in 1987 and then joined the chemistry faculty at San Jose State University in California. Since 1991 he has been a researcher at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr Ashley's work at NIOSH has focused on the development and evaluation of methods for metal exposure monitoring in the workplace, including field-portable techniques. He is managing editor of the NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods and chairs ASTM International Subcommittee D22.04 on Workplace Air Quality.

Dietmar Breuer

Dietmar Breuer was born in Germany, in 1957. He received his PhD in chemistry from University of Paderborn in Germany in 1988. Since 1988 he has been head of the section chemistry II at IFA. His current research interests are: workplace air, indoor air, organic vapours, volatile organic compounds, inorganic acids, hydroxides, complex organic analytes, gas chromatography, ion chromatography, infrared spectrometry, and proficiency testing. Dietmar Breuer is chairman of CEN TC 137 “Assessment of workplace exposure to chemical and biological agents” and member of several international standardisation committees (e.g. ISO TC 146 SC 2, ASTM D 22.04).

Paola Castellano

Paola Castellano, Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, is a researcher at the Chemical Agents Laboratory in the Occupational Hygiene Department of the Italian Workers' Compensation Authority – Ex National Institute for Occupational Safety and Prevention. She was appointed by the Italian Ministry of Labour to coordinate the Chemical Agents Group, in charge of drawing up documents and guidelines focused on prevention of professional chemical risks. Her research interests concern the development of sampling and analysis methodologies aimed at risk assessment of chemical agents in the workplace. She is currently dealing with the evaluation of professional exposure to unintentionally emitted nanoparticles.

Philippe Duquenne

Philippe Duquenne is a PhD researcher at the National Research Institute on Occupational Safety and Health in France (INRS). He received his PhD in microbial ecology from the University of Burgundy (France) in 1998 for his works on soil microorganisms. He joined the INRS teams in 2003 as a microbiologist scientist. He works on bioaerosol measurement methods (sampling, analysis) and strategies for the purpose of occupational exposure assessment. His researches focus on airborne microbial particles (cells, propagules, spores) and compounds (endotoxins, glucans). His current projects deal with real time PCR for bioaerosols studies and quantification of airborne endotoxins.

Wijnand Eduard

Wijnand Eduard is the research director at the National Institute of Occupational Health of Norway and professor II at the University in Tromsø, Institute of Medical Biology. The main focus of his research is on health risks from bioaerosol exposure in working populations including development of measurement methods for microbiological agents, and epidemiological and exposure studies in various occupations including sawmill workers, farmers and waste handlers. He has supervised MSc and PhD students in exposure assessment of biological and chemical agents, serves on editorial boards of 3 scientific journals and is author of more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Peter Görner

Peter Görner was born in Czechoslovakia in 1950. He studied Chemical Engineering at Technical University of Bratislava and received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Charles University of Prague. Since then, he has been involved in aerosol research. Previously at the French National Coal Board Research Center in Paris and from 1987 at the National Research Institute on Occupational Safety and Health in Nancy, France, where he is heading the Laboratory of Aerosol Metrology. His current research interest is aerosol, bioaerosol and nanoparticle sampling, measurement and analysis in the workplace.

Marek Jakubowski

Marek Jakubowski, PhD, full professor since 1992. Current position: Professor in the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Lodz, Poland. He is a specialist in evaluation of occupational and environmental exposure and assessment of early health effects of exposure to chemical agents. He has been a member of the WHO task groups developing the Air Quality Guidelines for Europe and documents on the Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution. He is a member of ICOH Commission on Occupational Toxicology, Collegium Ramazzini and the head of the commission preparing scientific documentation of Occupational Exposure Limits in Poland for chemicals. He has published about 140 scientific articles and book chapters.

Nadine Locoge

Nadine Locoge was born in France in 1965. She received an Engineer degree from Ecole Supérieure de Chimie of Lille, France and a PhD in the domain of spectrometry from the University of Lille I in France in 1992. In 1993, she joined the Chemistry and Environmental (CE) Department of the Ecole des Mines of Douai in Northern France. Prof. Locoge is currently responsible for the research in the CE Department. The objectives of her research have focused on improving the understanding of tropospheric chemistry. Her research interests include atmospheric chemistry and especially VOC measurements and behavior. Her work has involved both laboratory and field experiments and the interpretation of measurements data through the use of models especially source receptor modeling.

Zuzana Magdolenova

After graduating as a MSc. in biotechnology and molecular biology at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, Zuzana worked at Slovak Medical University, Bratislava where she learned genotoxicology methods and worked on COMICS – EU FP6 project. Since 2008 she has been working at NILU and is doing a PhD under the supervision of RNDr. Maria Dusinska, PhD. Her main research is focused on the mechanism of nanoparticle interaction with biological systems and on the investigation of genotoxicity of nanoparticles used in medical diagnostics. Within the EC FP7 NanoTEST she contributes to the development of in vitro methods for nanoparticle testing.

Marta Doval Miñarro

Marta Doval Miñarro is a postdoctoral researcher at the Mediterranean Centre for Environmental Studies Foundation (CEAM) in Spain. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Murcia (Spain) in 2009. She is a member of Subcommittee 2 “Air” of AENOR Technical Committee 77, which is responsible for the elaboration of Spanish Standards (UNE Standards) in matters of air quality. Her current interests include the improvement of continuous gas analyser data quality as well as the study of gaseous pollutant dynamics in ambient air.

Paul TJ Scheepers

Paul TJ Scheepers is associate professor in risk assessment and molecular epidemiology at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. He obtained an MSc in environmental sciences and occupational hygiene at Wageningen University and received his PhD in toxicology at the Radboud University. He founded the Research Laboratory Molecular Epidemiology and contributes to mostly international research projects concerning the development and application of biomarkers in the public health setting. He is subject tutor of the major occupational and environmental health and co-founder of the track human and environmental risk assessment (HERA) which is offered in the international MSc program biomedical sciences

Nils Petter Skaugset

Nils Petter Skaugset is a research scientist at the National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH) in Oslo, Norway. He finished is Masters at the University of Oslo in 1996, and has been employed at the NIOH since 1999. His research interests have been focused on inorganic pollutants in work atmosphere, especially in the primary aluminium producing industry. He is currently finishing his PhD at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

James H. Vincent

James H. Vincent, Ph.D., D.Sc., FRSC is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan, with degrees in physics from the University of Durham. He has worked in industry and universities both in Britain and in the United States. His work over the past 30 years has included studies in aerosol science and fluid mechanics, and their application to a wide range of environmental scenarios. He has published over 200 works, including four books, is Past-President of the British Occupational Hygiene Society, and was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Aerosol Science from 1988 to 1999; he was Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Environmental Monitoring from 2002 to 2005. He has received many awards.

Agurtzane Zugasti

Agurtzane Zugasti had a degree in Analytical Chemistry at Autonoma University of Madrid. She works as a technician in the Spanish National Institute of Safety and Hygiene at Work. Her work is related to occupational exposure assessment to aerosols and therefore, it is based on studying personal pumps performance and inhalable and respirable personal sampler comparisons carried out in different industrial activities. She takes part in standardized working, being a member of the ISO/TC 146/SC2/WG2 “Air quality/Workplace air/Inorganic particulate matter” and AEN/CTN GET15/GT3 “Nanotechnologies”.

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