Draft:Marta Schuhmacher

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Marta Schuhmacher (born 30 June 1953 in Zaragoza, Spain) is a professor of environmental technology at the Department of Chemical Engineering (DEQ) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. She has been teaching at DEQ since 1993, and in 2009, she became a professor or Catedrática. Since 2015, she has been a distinguished professor at URV. She served as the director of the AGA Research Group (Environmental Analysis and Management) of the Chemical Engineering department of the Rovira i Virgili University and the Tecnatox center (www.tecnatox.cat) till 2023. Tecnatox is a specialized research center with more than 30 researchers working in the field of Technology Transfer in Toxicology, Food, and Environmental Health and a member of the TECNIO network of ACC1Ó.

Career

Dr. Schuhmacher did her degree in Chemistry (1976) and completed her Ph.D. in 1990 from Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. Later, she also did a master's in engineering and environmental management from School of Industrial Organization, Ministry of Industry and Energy, Madrid, Spain (1995).

Research

Dr. Schuhmacher is a national and international expert in the environmental and human health risks associated with exposure to environmental chemicals (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). She has published approximately 346 papers in top scientific journals with 15783 citations and h-index of 64 (Marta Schuhmacher). She has supervised 25 doctoral and 50 master thesis (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). Her recognition as an expert in the field is certified by the large number of invitations to plenary sessions (more than 20), preparation of reports (15), participation in European projects (15), as well as participation as an expert for more than 10 years in the evaluation commission of European projects (FP6, PF7, Horizon2020), and projects of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and AGAUR. Her researcher focused on the integration of Environmental and Health Risk Assessment with Life Cycle Analysis. Among the publications to highlight during this stage is the book: "Integrated Life-Cycle and Risk Assessment for Industrial Processes" Guido Sonneman, Marta Schuhmacher, Francesc Castells, 2 editions (2003, 2018) (SpringerLink). Also, an article was published as the result of an initiative of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) “ USEtox—the UNEP-SETAC toxicity model: Recommended characterization factors for a human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in life cycle impact assessment (SpringerLink). From the work carried out for more than 3 years, a consensus scientific model was published which represents the updated recommended practice. This was a major advance in the application of LCA studies. Another research field of Dr. Schuhmacher has focused on the development of innovative techniques for risk assessment, and their application to new and emerging chemical compounds, and very particularly to that of mixtures. This novel area represents a major advance in risk assessment and includes new strategies and methods in toxicity testing, such as “in silico” (computational methods) and “in vitro” (omics techniques) models, as well as the use of innovative methods in data processing (ScienceDirect, ScienceDirect, PMC). One of the remarkable achievements of Dr. Schuhmacher is to be part of the European Network of Excellence Human Biomonitoring for Europe (HBM4EU) recently re-established as the European partnership for the assessment of risks from chemicals (PARC) which supports local, national, and European authorities for regulating and managing the risk of chemical products. The aim of the network is to address the security challenges of current and emerging chemical compounds and generate a transition towards a newer methodology for the assessment of risks (Next generation risk assessment -NGRA). This has allowed Dr. Schuhmacher to establish close collaboration with European Agencies such as: the European Environment Agency (EPA), European Chemicals Agency-ECHA (ECHA), European Food Safety Authorities (EFSA) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

References

https://www.deq.urv.cat/en/people/marta-schuhmacher/ Tecnatox - News Marta Schuhmacher (researchgate.net) Integrated life-cycle and risk assessment for industrial processes | SpringerLink USEtox—the UNEP-SETAC toxicity model: recommended characterisation factors for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in life cycle impact assessment | SpringerLink Risk Assessment of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) using Dynamic Age Dependent Physiologically based Pharmacokinetic Model (PBPK) across Human Lifetime - ScienceDirect Comparing dietary and non-dietary source contribution of BPA and DEHP to prenatal exposure: A Catalonia (Spain) case study - ScienceDirect A systems toxicology approach to compare the heavy metal mixtures (Pb, As, MeHg) impact in neurodegenerative diseases - ScienceDirect Impact of Contaminants on Microbiota: Linking the Gut–Brain Axis with Neurotoxicity - PMC (nih.gov)