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Keywords
Chemicals, ecotoxicology, environmental risk assessment, endocrine disrupters
Kresten Kusk (KOK), Lic.
Scient. in biology and Associate Professor in
ecotoxicology at Deptartment of Environmental
Engineering (DTU Environment),
DTU.
He’s a specialist in effects of
polluted surface water, waste water and xenobiotic chemicals on
aquatic organisms, distribution of chemical substances in the
environment, and environmental risk assessment of chemicals. KOK
has extended experience in literature search of characteristics of
organic and inorganic chemical substances and their
ecotoxicological effects. He works with cultivation algae and
crustaceans in the laboratory and is a specialist i algal
physiology and endocrine systems i crustaceans. He has participated
in standardisation of ecotoxicological methods within ISO and OECD,
and in research project in Denmark and EU, projects with industry
and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency e.g. endocrine
disrupters, pesticides, biocides, heavy metals. KOK during the last
years cooperated with the Danish Environmental Protection Agency
about development of a QSAR model for prediction of toxic effects
of chemical on algae. Results from research are continuously
published in international scientific journals and presented at
scientific conferences. KOK is the coordinator of the research
group Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry and he’s a
board member of the research school RECETO and for Center for
Endocrine Disrupters.
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