Paul J. Van den Brink is a professor of chemical stress ecology and works at the research institute Alterra and the Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group of Wageningen University, both belonging to the Wageningen University and Research centre.
At Wageningen University Paul chairs the chemical stress ecology group which currently consists of himself and 10 PhD students.
For both affiliations, he is involved in supervising and executing international projects on the scientific underpinning of higher tier risk assessment procedures for contaminants like pesticides, veterinary medicines and personal and home care products.
Recent research topics are the development of effect models (e.g. individual based, meta-population models and ecoinformatics, expert base models), Trait based Ecological Risk Assessment (TERA) and ecological risk assessment of chemicals in the tropics.
Since 1995, Paul van den Brink has published over 150 peer reviewed papers, for two of which he won an international prize. He also co-edited five books.
In 2006 Paul won the LRI-SETAC Innovative Science Award. He also organized and took part in many international workshops and courses.
Paul van den Brink is presently a member of the SENSE research school (www.sense.nl), associate fellow of the Canadian River Institute, honorary visiting professor at the University of York and editor of the journal: ‘Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’.
He is also a past-president of SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; www.setac.org) World and of SETAC Europe.
Paul van den Brink is presently a member of the SENSE research school (www.sense.nl), associate fellow of the Canadian River Institute, honorary visiting professor at the University of York and editor of the journal: ‘Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’.
He is also a past-president of SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; www.setac.org) World and of SETAC Europe.