About

• Capacity: Member
• Country: Netherlands

Resumé

Jan Linders holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Twente in The Netherlands with a specialization in Environmental Chemistry. To that purpose, he wrote his thesis on “a phosphorous model for Lake Brielle” for this eutrophicated lake in the Netherlands in 1974. He joined the National Institute for Drinking Water research in 1975 and worked for about 10 years on mathematical modelling and statistical data handling of environmental monitoring projects. Since 1985 he worked in the area of regulatory risk assessment for pesticides, biocides, industrial chemicals and medicinal drugs for humans and animals. He developed computerized risk assessment tools for these types of chemicals, first in the national context but later also for the European Union (EU), the Council of Europe and the Organization for Economic cooperation and Development (OECD) and finally globally in the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). He served for about 10 years as a member and vice chair of the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER). He chaired working groups of the EU on mathematical modelling of surface waters and the development of scenarios for pesticide application in the framework of the registration. Since 2006, he is a member of the GESAMP Ballast Water Working Group (WG 34), of which he became the Chairperson in 2008. This group developed a risk assessment methodology for the discharge of disinfection by-products after the application of Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS) on ships.