Dr. Etienne Vermeirssen
Tasks at the Ecotox Centre
- Deputy director Ecotox Centre
- Group leader aquatic ecotoxicology
- Planning, supervision and implementation of applied projects in ecotoxicology and aquatic chemistry
- Contribution to continuing education courses
Areas of Expertise
- Application of biotests in environmental analytics
- Combination of biological and chemical analysis
- Passive sampling
- Physiology of fish reproduction
Projects
Terminated projects
- Monitoring of biotopes of national importance for plant protection products
- Anticoagulants in the environment
- Ecotoxicity of coating materials for WWTP
- Wastewater treatment with granular activated carbon combined with ozonation
- Water Monitoring in NAWA SPEZ 2017
- Estrogens from agriculture
- Ecotoxicity of surface sediments of Lake Geneva
- Development of a Reliable Concept for Routine Assessment of Water Quality Based on Bioassays
- Micropollutants and Ecosystems
- Ecotoxicity of corrosion inhibitors from hydraulic steel structures
- Situation analysis Switzerland for New Priority Substances in the EU Water Framework Directive
- Integrated Water Quality Management for Streams and Rivers (iWaQa) - Information from Bioassays and Chemical Analyses
- Ecotoxicity of facade runoff
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since 2011
Senior Scientist and Group Leader at the Ecotox Centre
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2003 - 2011
Scientist at Eawag at the Dept. of Environmental Toxicology and the Dept. of Environmental Chemistry. Key research topics: hormonally active substances and passive sampling
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1999 - 2002
Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (Seewiesen, Germany) – Research on sperm competition in birds
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1996 - 1999
Postdoctoral researcher at CEFAS (Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; Lowestoft, UK) – Research on pheromones and reproduction in fish
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1992 - 1995
Doctoral Thesis: "Pheromones and Reproductive Physiology of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum) and North Sea Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa L.)". University of East Anglia, School of Biological Sciences, Norwich, UK