Eggen, Rik
Professor
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
In 2004, Hendrikus I.L. Eggen was promoted to a Titularprofessor at the Department of Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich. He is head of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG) and is member of the steering group of the competence centre for Xenobiotic and Environmental Risk Research (XERR) in Zürich. Since February 2005 he is member of the directorate at EAWAG. He was born in Heerlen, The Netherlands, on October 22, 1959. He studied biology at the University of Nijmegen (Master degree in 1984), and obtained his doctoral degree in 1988 at the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. Until 1994 he was working as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Department of Microbiology of the same University. After that he was engaged by EAWAG, first as group leader and from 1996 onwards as department head.
Research Interest
His research focuses on the molecular mechanism of toxic effects by environmental pollutants on aquatic organism. Main research topics are the photo-oxidative stress response in green algae, pollutant-inducted disturbances in the development and sexual differentiation in Zebrafish, and multiple stressor effects (pollutants in combination with changed UV and light intensities or temperature).
Publications
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Environmental context and magnitude of disturbance influence trait-mediated community responses to wastewater in streams. Burdon FJ, Reyes M, Alder AC, Joss A, Ort C, Räsänen K, Jokela J, Eggen RI, Stamm C. Ecol Evol. 2016 May 12;6(12):3923-39. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2165. eCollection 2016 Jun.
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From the Cover: Zebrafish Larvae Are Insensitive to Stimulation by Cocaine: Importance of Exposure Route and Toxicokinetics. Kirla KT, Groh KJ, Steuer AE, Poetzsch M, Banote RK, Stadnicka-Michalak J, Eggen RI, Schirmer K, Kraemer T. Toxicol Sci. 2016 Nov;154(1):183-193. Epub 2016 Aug 11.
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Dose-dependent effects of morphine on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced inflammation, and involvement of multixenobiotic resistance (MXR) transporters in LPS efflux in teleost fish. Mottaz H, Schönenberger R, Fischer S, Eggen RI, Schirmer K, Groh KJ. Environ Pollut. 2017 Feb;221:105-115. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.11.046. Epub 2016 Dec 20.
