Prof. Dr. Werner Brack

PD Dr. Werner Brack
Photo: Sebastian Wiedling/UFZ

Address:
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Building: 7.3
Room: 2.039
Phone +49 341 6025 1531

Prof. Dr. Werner Brack

Research Interests

  • Monitoring, assessment and prioritisation of complex contamination in waste- and surface waters from local to European scale including wastewater-based epidemiology of human exposure to environmental contaminants, particularly in the context of water quality management and the implementation of EU Water Framework Directive and Urban Wastewater Directive
  • Linking chemical exposure to measurable effects or impacts on the ecosystem including the establishment of cause-effect relationships using Effect-Directed Analysis: (EDA) and multivariate approaches. Toxicant identification in complex mixtures including water, sediments, tissue, blood and urine. This includes the development of new separation techniques, the application and evaluation of bioassays and a broad array of chemical analytical techniques

  • Bioavailability of toxicants and its operationalization as a prioritisation criteria in effect-directed analysis, e.g. of contaminated sediments including extraction techniques, passive dosing and prediction models for chemicals uptake
  • Chemical screening analysis (target-, suspect-, non-target screening) using LC- and GC-HRMS techniques

Curriculum Vitae

since 2022

Acting Head of Reseach Unit "Chemicals in the Environment" & Co-Head of the Department Exposure Science at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

since 2021

Professorship at the Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main
 Faculty of Biological Sciences

2020 - 2021

PD (venia legendi) at the Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main
 Faculty of Biological Sciences

2005 - 2022

Head of the Department of Effect-Directed Analysis at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

1997 - 2005

Scientist at the Department of Chemical Ecotoxicology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

1992 - 1996

PhD thesis at the University of Bayreuth, topic: "Ecotoxicological assessment of volatile components of landfill leachates"

1992

Diploma in Geo-Ecology at the University of Bayreuth

Boards and memberships

  • Co-Chair of National SubHub for Germany of PARC
  • Member of International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP)

  • Member of the Steering Committee of the “Network of reference laboratories and related organizations for monitoring and bio-monitoring of emerging environmental pollutants” (NORMAN).

  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Future Chemical Risk Assessment and Management Strategies (FRAM) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden

  • Member of the Advisory Board of the JPI Oceans Project FOREWARN (Development a smart forewarning system to assess the occurrence, fate and behaviour of contaminants of emerging concern and pathogens, in waters)

  • Co-editor of the Journal “Environmental Science Europe

  • Member of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC). Member of Scientific Board of SETAC Europe Conference 2023 in Dublin

Current Projects

2022 - 2029

PARC Partnership for the assessment of risks from chemicals. European Commission Horizon Partnership. Project coordinator of Project Wastewater-Based Epidemiology.

2022 - 2025

AromaTex DFG Accumulation in textiles and release by laundry as an emission pathway for aromatic amines from indoor environments to waste- and surface waters 

2020 - 2025

NFDI4Chem Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur Fachkonsortium Chemie

2020 - 2024

SENTINEL Link between freshwater contamination and the occurrence of snails as hosts for Schistosomiasis in Western Kenya

Completed Projects

2017 - 2022

HBM4EU The Human Biomonitoring Initiative. European Commission Horizon Project 

2018 - 2020

KGM Kleingewässermonitoring. BMUB (Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection) project Implementation of the National Action Plan on the sustainable application of plant protection products (NAP)

2017 - 2020

NaToxAq (Natural Toxins and Drinking Water Quality – From Source to Tap). EU Horizon 2020 European Training Network ETN (No 722493)

2013 - 2018

SOLUTIONS for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management. European Collaborative Project. Coordinator. (FP7-603437) 

2012 - 2015

TOX-BOX (Gefährdungsbasiertes Risikomanagement für anthropogene Spurenstoffe zur Sicherung der Trinkwasserversorgung); BMBF

 2011 - 2015

EDA-EMERGE (Innovative biodiagnosis meets chemical structure elucidation – Novel tools in effect-directed analysis to support the identification and monitoring of emerging toxicants on a European scale) European Marie Curie Initial Training Network. Coordinator (PITN-GA-2011-290100)

2011 - 2014

Large-Volume Solid Phase Extraction (LVSPE) technique and sampling device for automated time- and volume-proportional sampling of water samples using solid-phase extraction, AiF KF2081009MK0

2011 - 2014

Concept development for non-target screening of human samples and identification of environmentally relevant compounds as a basis for the development of new human biomonitoring methods, Umweltbundesamt Z6-55 410-49/2

2007 - 2009

 LPDA (Low Pressure Dialytic Analysis)-instrument and technique for the clean-up of matrix-impacted extracts using semipermeable dialysis membranes. Cooperation project AiF 2007-2009

2006 - 2010

 KEYBIOEFFECTS (Cause-Effect Relationships of Key Pollutants on the European Rivers Biodiversity); European Marie Curie Research Training Network (MRTN-CT-2006-035695)

2006 - 2009

RISKBASE (Risk-Based Management of European River Basins); European Coordination Action (GOCE 036938). Work package leader for  Risk Assessment

2005 - 2010

MODELKEY (Models for Assessing and Forecasting the Impact of Environmental Key Pollutants on Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems); European Integrated Project, Coordinator (511237 (GOCE)

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