25 Februari 2021
We’re hiring a PhD student in Analytical Environmental Chemistry for the challenge of measuring plastic particles for a human risk assessment. Would you help us find the right candidate? Or maybe it’s you? Please apply by 18 March 2021. Get paid while earning your PhD in a groundbreaking EU H2020 project, POLYRISK. @VU Amsterdam.
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Conducting academic research and training to better understand the impact of environmental contaminants on human health and the environment.
The unique combination of chemists, toxicologists and epidemiologists enables a holistic approach of environmental and human health topics.
Our expertise and research output make an important contribution to the knowledge needed for informed environmental governance of the most pressing environmental pollution issues.
View all of our publications from 2005 onwards, sorted by year of release and categorized by publication type, ranging from journal articles and doctoral theses, to lectures and conference contributions.
A wide range of analytical instruments is available to identify and guantify the various contaminants in all sorts of matrices and to determine their toxicity.
The bachelor programme Health and Life focusses on all aspects of life, health and disease from the level of the molecule to the level of society.
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An overview of events at the Department of Environment and Health.
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