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2025
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Netherlands
2025

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Citations
46891
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388
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  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Albert A. Koelmans is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a substantial focus on pollution. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Biomaterials, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to microplastics and plastic pollution, recycling and waste management techniques, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, and sustainable supply chain management.

Among their recent papers are:

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Risk assessment of microplastic particles, 2022, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Twenty years of microplastic pollution research-what have we learned?, 2024, Science
  • Lifetime Accumulation of Microplastic in Children and Adults, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Quality Criteria for Microplastic Effect Studies in the Context of Risk Assessment: A Critical Review, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Frequent co-authors include Merel Kooi, Paula E. Redondo-Hasselerharm, Nur Hazimah Mohamed Nor, Svenja M. Mintenig, and Todd Gouin.

Albert A. Koelmans publishes regularly in several journals, with the most frequent venues being Microplastics and Nanoplastics, Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Pollution, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

Best Publications

  • Microplastics in freshwaters and drinking water: Critical review and assessment of data quality.

    Albert A. Koelmans;Nur Hazimah Mohamed Nor;Enya Hermsen;Merel Kooi

  • Extensive sorption of organic compounds to black carbon, coal, and kerogen in sediments and soils: mechanisms and consequences for distribution, bioaccumulation, and biodegradation

    Gerard Cornelissen;Örjan Gustafsson;Thomas D. Bucheli;Michiel T. O. Jonker

  • Microplastic as a Vector for Chemicals in the Aquatic Environment: Critical Review and Model-Supported Reinterpretation of Empirical Studies

    Albert A. Koelmans;Adil Bakir;G. A. Burton;Colin R. Janssen

  • Microplastics in the Terrestrial Ecosystem: Implications for Lumbricus terrestris (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae)

    Esperanza Huerta Lwanga;Hennie Gertsen;Harm P.A. Gooren;Piet Peters

  • Nanoplastic affects growth of S. obliquus and reproduction of D. magna.

    Ellen Besseling;Bo Wang;Miquel Lürling;Albert A. Koelmans

  • Effects of Microplastic on Fitness and PCB Bioaccumulation by the Lugworm Arenicola marina (L.)

    Ellen Besseling;Anna Wegner;Edwin M. Foekema;Martine J. van den Heuvel-Greve

  • Risk assessment of microplastic particles

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  • Plastic in North Sea Fish

    Edwin M. Foekema;Corine De Gruijter;Mekuria T. Mergia;Jan Andries van Franeker

  • Strong sorption of PCBs to nanoplastics, microplastics, carbon nanotubes, and fullerenes.

    I. Velzeboer;C. J. A. F. Kwadijk;A. A. Koelmans

  • Fate of nano- and microplastic in freshwater systems: A modeling study ☆

    Ellen Besseling;Joris T.K. Quik;Muzhi Sun;Albert A. Koelmans

  • Ups and Downs in the Ocean: Effects of Biofouling on Vertical Transport of Microplastics

    Merel Kooi;Egbert H. van Nes;Marten Scheffer;Albert A. Koelmans

  • Field evidence for transfer of plastic debris along a terrestrial food chain

    Esperanza Huerta Lwanga;Jorge Mendoza Vega;Victor Ku Quej;Jesus de los Angeles Chi

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

    Erik van Sebille;Stefano Aliani;Kara Lavender Law;Nikolai Maximenko

  • Twenty years of microplastics pollution research—what have we learned?

    Unknown

  • Sorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls to soot and soot-like materials in the aqueous environment: Mechanistic considerations

    Michiel T O Jonker;Albert A Koelmans

  • Potential scenarios for nanomaterial release and subsequent alteration in the environment

    Bernd Nowack;James F. Ranville;Stephen Diamond;Julian A. Gallego-Urrea

  • Nanoplastics in the Aquatic Environment. Critical Review

    Albert A. Koelmans;Ellen Besseling;Won J. Shim;Won J. Shim

  • Incorporation of microplastics from litter into burrows of Lumbricus terrestris.

    Esperanza Huerta Lwanga;Hennie Gertsen;Harm Gooren;Piet Peters

  • Black carbon: the reverse of its dark side.

    Albert A. Koelmans;Michiel T.O. Jonker;Gerard Cornelissen;Thomas D. Bucheli

  • Effects of nanopolystyrene on the feeding behavior of the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis L.)

    A. Wegner;E. Besseling;E.M. Foekema;P. Kamermans

  • Analysis of engineered nanomaterials in complex matrices (environment and biota): General considerations and conceptual case studies

    Frank von der Kammer;P. Lee Ferguson;Patricia A. Holden;Armand Masion

  • Plastic as a carrier of POPs to aquatic organisms: a model analysis

    Albert A. Koelmans;Ellen Besseling;Anna Wegner;Edwin M. Foekema

Frequent Co-Authors

Michiel T. O. Jonker
Michiel T. O. Jonker Utrecht University
Edwin T. H. M. Peeters
Edwin T. H. M. Peeters Wageningen University & Research
Theo C.M. Brock
Theo C.M. Brock Wageningen University & Research
Carolien Kroeze
Carolien Kroeze Wageningen University & Research
Huub H.M. Rijnaarts
Huub H.M. Rijnaarts Wageningen University & Research
Michiel H. S. Kraak
Michiel H. S. Kraak University of Amsterdam
Gerard Cornelissen
Gerard Cornelissen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Annemarie P. van Wezel
Annemarie P. van Wezel University of Amsterdam
Dik van de Meent
Dik van de Meent Radboud University
Stephen J. Klaine
Stephen J. Klaine Clemson University

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