Merian''s Elements and Their Compounds in the Environment

About Jack NgJerome O. NriaguJörg Matschullat

Jörg Matschullat holds the chair of Geochemistry and Geoecology at the Technical University Freiberg (Germany) where he also heads the Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Centre. Having obtained his academic degrees from the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen he pursued his academic career at the universities of Clausthal and Heidelberg before moving to Freiberg in 1999. Since 1998 he is also a frequent guest lecturer at the universities of Campinas and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Jack Ng leads the Risk Assessment and Intervention group at the Australian National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology (Entox) at the University of Queensland (Australia). Having started his scientific career as an industrial chemist at the Carlton & United Breweries he joined the University of Queensland in 1977 and commenced his research career in the Toxicology Laboratory within the Veterinary School. In 1992 Jack moved to his current position of Professorial Research Fellow at Entox. Jerome Nriagu is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Research Professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health Ann Arbor (USA). Before joining the university in 1993 he was a research scientist with Environment Canada Burlington Ontario. Professor Nriagu was the longtime Editor-in-chief of the journal Science of the Total Environment and has edited several major encyclopedias and book series including the Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (published in 2011). His scientific awards include the Senior Fulbright Fellowship and the Distinguished Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize.