Bernd Nowack

Prof. Dr. Bernd Nowack holds a MSc. (1992) and a PhD (1995) in environmental sciences from ETH Zürich. He is leading the “Environmental Risk Assessment and Management” group at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, and is adjunct professor at ETH Zurich. His research deals with the chances and risks of nanomaterials, working on material flow modeling, environmental risk assessment. life cycle assessment, release of nanomaterials from products and behavior and effects in the environment. He has published more than 110 peer-reviewed publications which receive >1100 citations/year. He acted as co-advisor of 15 PhD projects and is Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Pollution. He is listed in “The World’s most influential scientific minds 2014” from the Web of Science.