Professor of environmental toxicology and ecogenomics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

He has 30 years of professional experience as a licensed toxicologist. He is the founder and CEO of BioDetection Systems and for the last 25 years he has initiated and promoted the development and widespread application of effect-based bioanalytical methods for safety assessments of food, feed, environmental matrices, chemicals, food contact materials, and natural compounds.