The Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (ACHS)
Members' background
Professor Jane Plant CBE, BSc, PhD, FRSA, FIMM, CEng, FGS, CGeol is Professor of Geochemistry at Imperial College, London. She was past President of the Institution of Mining & Metallurgy and has published widely on sustainable mineral development, and economic and environmental geochemistry in the United Kingdom and internationally. She is presently a member of the Parliamentary Minerals Committee, a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and is on the council of the All Party Scientific and Parliamentary Committee. She was awarded the CBE for Services to Earth Sciences and an Honorary Doctorate of the Open University (for academic and scholarly distinction) in 1997. In 1999 she was elected a Freeman of the City of London - Society of Water Conservators and also awarded the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award from Foundation of Science & Technology in recognition of contribution to the application of fundamental geochemical modelling and sound observation in the development of simple, cost-effective methods of minimising the impact of contamination on the environment and particularly human health. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and holds 6 honorary doctorates.
Prof Ken Donaldson BSc(Hons), PhD, DSc, FIBiol, FRCPath, FFOM currently holds the Chair of Respiratory Toxicology at the University of Edinburgh and is Scientific Director of the ELEGI Colt Laboratory. He has spent over 25 years researching the toxicology of particles and fibres and has sat on a number of key panels and advisory bodies relating to the health effects of particles for WHO, EU, HSE, USEPA etc. He sits on two other government committees - The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution and The Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards (Ad hoc member). He has published over 250 articles on toxicology of particles and fibres and has recently specialised in nanoparticles and their toxicology. He is Editor-in Chief of the journal 'Particle and Fibre Toxicology'.
Dr Gev Eduljee MSc, PhD, C Chem, MRSC. Gev Eduljee has been involved in risk assessment and appraisal of environmental effects of chemicals for 20 years. He specialises in modelling the fate and transport of organic and inorganic chemicals in the environment, exposure assessment, and characterisation of the risks to human health and the ecosystem. He has contributed to risk assessment in the areas of contaminated land, industrial discharges, waste management (in particular, with respect to emissions of dioxins and other trace organics), and consumer chemicals.
Dr. Qintao Liu BSc, PhD, MRSC is currently a Senior Scientist of AstraZeneca Global Safety Health & Environment (SHE), where she leads environmental research on abiotic fate of pharmaceuticals and a foresight project on environmental science and policy trends in China. She is also co-responsible for developing an environmental fate strategy at AstraZeneca. Trained as an applied chemist in Peking University in China, Dr. Liu undertook her PhD on microbial degradation in a UK university. In addition, she had 14-years previous research experience with academic (University of Toronto), government institution (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and a multinational company (Novo Nordisk) in Canada and China. She has worked on environmental chemistry, source, fate and transport of emerging pollutants, polar compounds, PAH, PCBs, pesticides and heavy metals, lipid chemistry and pharmaceutical analytical R&D. Dr. Liu has published many peer-reviewed papers in environmental, food and agricultural journals and given presentations to international conferences. She is an expert referee for international research journals and an active member of professional societies, such as Royal Society of Chemistry and Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Gwynne Lyons is Toxicologist and Policy Advisor at WWF. Before joining WWF, Gwynne was Senior Research Officer for another well-known environmental pressure group. A qualified pharmacist, she also managed a retail pharmacy for many years, and has worked in the hospital service. Gwynne Lyons has also been a member of the HSE's Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances. Her main areas of expertise include the effects of toxic chemicals, and the legislative frameworks for controlling chemicals.
Hilary Stone (Lay Member) is a Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Law at Brunel University. Stone spent 25 years as a commercial lawyer advising corporate clients on environmental issues and since 1995 has taught environmental and health and safety law and other environmental topics on various Masters programmes at Brunel University. She has lectured and written extensively on waste related topics and has published, with others two books on environmental topics, with a third due for publication in 2006. Stone is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Dr Peter J Donnelly has been involved in Regulatory Issues within the chemicals industry since 1970. This has included work in Trade Associations such as the Chemicals Industry Association (CIA) and the British Plastics Federation (BPF) in the UK and the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) in Brussels, together with work on joint Government Committees, including interactions with the European Commission. He has worked on classification issues including the development of the new GHS classification system, and also in the development of risk assessment methodology and is involved in several current risk assessments. He has contributed to the REACH discussions both from the industry side and as a member of the Defra “Rapid Response Sounding Board”. In addition, he has worked with the Supply Chain Leadership Group (SCLG), which is a CIA/British Retail Consortium (BRC) initiative to understand issues in the supply chain of chemicals.
Dr Stuart Dobson BSc, PhD is an environmental biologist with the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, part of the Natural Environment Research Council. His research interests lie in ecotoxicology and the environmental fate of chemicals. He has worked on risk assessment and risk management of chemicals at the national and international level. He is currently a member of the UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum and chairs the Risk Assessment Steering Group of the World Health Organisation’s International Programme on Chemical Safety.
Dr Jamie Lead BSc, PhD is Reader in Aquatic Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. He is an environmental chemist with a PhD on the chemistry of transition elements in freshwaters and soils and over 10 years of further research experience in aquatic chemistry. He heads a large research group investigating the fate and behaviour of manufactured nanoparticles and trace elements in the natural environment. Interactions with natural colloids nanoparticles are a particular focus and, as such, he heads two Knowledge Transfer Networks on Manufactured Nanoparticles and on Natural Aquatic Colloids and has organised and chaired several recent international conferences in these areas. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Institute of Nanotechnology.
Dr. Alexander Orlov BE/MSE, MSE, M.Phil., PhD, MRSC is an Assistant Professor of Material Science and Engineering at State University of New York, Stony Brook. Concurrently, he is a faculty member at the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research at the same university. Previously he was a Research Fellow in Science and Engineering at the University of Cambridge College/King' College. His main scientific interests are in environmental chemistry and engineering areas, such as environmental nanotechnology, water quality, sustainable materials and environmental remediation. His research experience also served him in his position as consultant/expert to the Ukrainian Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, EU commission, members of UK parliament and US Congress on such issues as nanotechnology, economic competitiveness, international space programs, air quality and the impacts of North American Free Trade Agreement on environment.
Dr Christina Lye BSc, MSc, PhD is an ecotoxicologist, with particular expertise in aquatic environments and experience of working in industry, government and academia. She has been an external assessor for Defra research programmes on endocrine disruption and has direct experience of chemicals regulation from work at the Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate.
Dr Lesley Stanley MA PhD is a toxicologist with over 20 years experience in assessing the effects of chemicals on human health. Since May 2005 she has been a freelance consultant in Investigative Toxicology, assisting clients with experimental planning, literature reviews and report/manuscript preparation. From 2002-2005 she worked as a Head of Operations in the biotechnology industry, managing projects, interpreting data and providing expert advice. Her previous experience includes six years as a Senior (latterly Principal) Lecturer in Biomedical Science at De Montfort University, Leicester as well as spells at the MRC Toxicology Unit and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, North Carolina, USA . Dr Stanley has been a member of the Committee on Toxicity since 2001.
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27 February 2007
Page published: 23 August 2001