University of Birmingham (UK)

Dr. Iseult Lynch, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Nanosciences at School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences of University of Birmingham. She has a very broad overview of all aspects of Nanomerials safety assessment and the data requirements, having served as Chair of the EU Nanosafety Cluster Working Group (NSC WG) on databases for the last 2 years (and as co-Chair of the Hazed WG prior to that), as well as being theme editor for the Materials and classification section of the NSC Vision2020 research roadmap (under review for publication in June 2013). Prior to the University of Birmingham she was Strategic Research Manager at the Centre for BioNano Interactions in University College Dublin, where she was instrumental in the development and implementation of the QualityNano research infrastructure for nanosafety assessment.

Eva Valsami-Jones, Chair in Environmental Nanoscience, Director of Research, Director of FENAC. She joined UoB in September 2011 as Professor of Environmental Nanoscience. Prior to this position, she was an Individual Merit Researcher at the Natural History Museum of London. Her core research interests focus on understanding the reactivity of NMs and the mechanisms involved in their potential toxicity. She led the team which developed a series of high specifications reference nanoparticles for toxicological studies, including the first synthetic stable-isotope labelled nanoparticles (ZnO, CuO and Ag). Professor Valsami-Jones’ research interests focus on understanding reactivity at the nanoscale, particularly interactions of nanoparticles with pollutants and biota and biomineralisation processes. She has carried out research on the interaction of a variety of carbon- and metal-based nano-objects with biota in vitro and in vivo and has pioneered novel methods of labelling nanomaterials. She has also worked on understanding the formation and stability of biogenic apatite.