Prof. Dr. Bernd Nowack holds a MSc. (1992) and a PhD (1995) in environmental sciences from ETH Zürich. He is leading the “Environmental Risk Assessment and Management” group at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. He is also adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich.
His research deals with environmental risks of advanced materials, engineered nanomaterials, nanobiomaterials, plastics and nano/microplastics, comprising a wide spectrum of different approaches: development and application of methods for material flow modeling, exposure modeling, biouptake modeling and environmental risk assessment; experimental studies about release of materials from products and development of methods for safe and sustainable by design (SSbD).
Bernd Nowack has published more than 230 peer-reviewed publications and has a Scopus h-factor of 81. He acted as co-advisor of 30 PhD projects and is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal NanoImpact. He has been listed from 2014 to 2022 for nine consecutive times as “Highly Cited Researcher” in the category “Environmental Sciences/Ecology” from Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science).
