Since the number of research directions at the IAS has grown considerably, we have installed a Management Team (MT) in which the major groups of academic disciplines are represented (following the classification commonly used in the Netherlands: alpha, beta, gamma). Annemarie van Wezel will represent the formal and natural sciences (beta) in the team.

Van Wezel: “I am pleased to contribute to the IAS in this role, because we all know that the big challenges of our times require an interdisciplinary approach. I believe that the IAS-model can really help to stimulate encounters, foster inspiration and advance science itself. Together with the university departments and with all external partners who also recognise the value of the IAS, and for all generations of researchers.”

Short bio

Prof. Annemarie van Wezel (MSc Biology UU, PhD environmental chemistry and toxicology UU) has long experience as scientist in water quality, risk assessment and risk mitigation, environmental toxicology and chemistry, and environmental policy evaluation. She was granted many projects in the field of chemicals of emerging concern and water quality, examples are the European projects FP7 Solutions, ITN ECORISK2050, ITN PERFORCE3, and Dutch NWO funded projects such as Shale gas & water, TRAMP (Technologies for risk assessment for microplastics), EMERCHE (Effect-directed Monitoring tools to assess Ecological and human health Risks of CHemicals of Emerging concern in the water cycle) and RUST (Re-USe of Treated effluent for agriculture) and PsychoPharmac’eau (Psychopharmaceutical Prevention & Pilots to Reduce Effects in the water cycle). She is interested in the science-to-policy interface, in scientific outreach and has ample experience in media appearances. She is a member of the Dutch Health Council and the Dutch Board on authorization of plant protection products and biocides CTGB. She holds the chair Environmental Ecology and is Scientific Director of IBED (Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics) at the University of Amsterdam.