Dr. Rolf Altenburger
professor
Departments Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Germany
Biography
Dr. Rolf Altenburger is a biologist and Head of the Thematic Area Chemicals in the Environment and of the Department of Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology at the UFZ in Leipzig. He is also a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Research at RWTH Aachen University. Professor Altenburger is spokesperson for the UFZ core subject area "Chemicals in the Environment" in the Helmholtz "Terrestrial Environment" programme. His research focusses on the analysis of the action of chemicals in the environment, the predictability and assessment of the effect of substance combinations and on establishing methods for measuring bioanalytical processes. He was appointed by Christian Schmidt, Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, to serve on the Scientific Advisory Board "National Action Plan for the Sustainable Use of Pesticides" from 2015 to 2018.
Research Interest
Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Environmental Chemistry, Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology Molecular Systems Biology, Ecological Chemistry, System-Ecotoxicology, Environmental Immunology, Effect-Directed Analysis, Cell Toxicology
Publications
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Neale, P.A., Munz, N.A., Aїt-Aїssa, S., Altenburger, R., Brion, F., Busch, W., Escher, B.I., Hilscherová, K., Kienle, C., Novák, J., Seiler, T.-B., Shao, Y., Stamm, C., Hollender, J., (2017): Integrating chemical analysis and bioanalysis to evaluate the contribution of wastewater effluent on the micropollutant burden in small streams Sci. Total Environ. 576 , 785 - 795
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Kühnert, A., Vogs, C., Seiwert, B., Aulhorn, S., Altenburger, R., Hollert, H., Küster, E., Busch, W., (2017): Biotransformation in the zebrafish embryo etemporal gene transcription changes of cytochrome P450 enzymes and internal exposure dynamics of the AhR binding xenobiotic benz[a]anthracene Environ. Pollut. 230 , 1 - 11
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Jakob, L., Bedulina, D.S., Axenov-Gribanov, D.V., Ginzburg, M., Shatilina, Z.M., Lubyaga, Y.A., Madyarova, E.V., Gurkov, A.N., Timofeyev, M.A., Portner, H.-O., Sartoris, F.J., Altenburger, R., Luckenbach, T., (2017): Uptake kinetics and subcellular compartmentalization explain lethal but not sublethal effects of cadmium in two closely related amphipod species Environ. Sci. Technol. 51 (12), 7208 - 7218
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Escher, B.I., Hackermüller, J., Polte, T., Scholz, S., Aigner, A., Altenburger, R., Böhme, A., Bopp, S.K., Brack, W., Busch, W., Chadeau-Hyam, M., Covaci, A., Eisenträger, A., Galligan, J.J., Garcia-Reyero, N., Hartung, T., Hein, M., Herberth, G., Jahnke, A., Kleinjans, J., Klüver, N., Krauss, M., Lamoree, M., Lehmann, I., Luckenbach, T., Miller, G.W., Müller, A., Phillips, D.H., Reemtsma, T., Rolle-Kampczyk, U., Schüürmann, G., Schwikowski, B., Tan, Y.-M., Trump, S., Walter-Rohde, S., Wambaugh, J.F., (2017): From the exposome to mechanistic understanding of chemical-induced adverse effects Environ. Int. 99 , 97 - 106
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Altenburger, R., Gündel, U., Rotter, S., Vogs, C., Faust, M., Backhaus, T., (2017): Establishment of a concept for comparative risk assessment of plant protection products with special focus on the risks to the environment. Project No. (FKZ) 3712 67 406. Report No. (UBA-FB) 002256/ENG Texte Umweltbundesamt 47/2017 Umweltbundesamt, Dessau-Roßlau, 215 pp
