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Greet Schoeters

Greet Schoeters

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
71
Citations
15607
World Ranking
1621
National Ranking
25

Overview

Greet Schoeters is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium and primarily works in the field of Environmental Science. The research focus includes subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, Plant Science, Cancer Research, and Pollution.

The scientist's research topics cover various areas including:

  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
  • Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Greet Schoeters include:

  • Eva Govarts
  • Marike Kolossa-Gehring
  • Elly Den Hond
  • Adrian Covaci
  • Laura Rodríguez Martín

Greet Schoeters has published extensively in several scientific journals. The prominent publication venues are:

  • International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  • Toxics
  • Environmental Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environment International

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Greet Schoeters include:

  • HBM4EU combines and harmonises human biomonitoring data across the EU, building on existing capacity - The HBM4EU survey (2021), International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  • PFAS levels and determinants of variability in exposure in European teenagers - Results from the HBM4EU aligned studies (2014-2021) (2022), International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  • Chemical prioritisation strategy in the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) - Development and results (2021), International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  • Harmonization of Human Biomonitoring Studies in Europe: Characteristics of the HBM4EU-Aligned Studies Participants (2022), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • PFAS levels and exposure determinants in sensitive population groups (2022), Chemosphere

Best Publications

  • Comparison of Five In Vitro Digestion Models To Study the Bioaccessibility of Soil Contaminants

    Agnes G. Oomen;Alfons Hack;Mans Minekus;Evelijn Zeijdner

  • Alternative (non-animal) methods for cosmetics testing: current status and future prospects—2010

    Sarah Adler;David Basketter;Stuart Creton;Olavi Pelkonen

  • Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food chain on perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and their salts

    D. Benford;J. de Boer;A. Carere;A. di Domenico

  • Birth weight and prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE): a meta-analysis within 12 European Birth Cohorts

    Eva Govarts;Mark Nieuwenhuijsen;Greet Schoeters;Greet Schoeters;Ferran Ballester

  • Renal function, cytogenetic measurements, and sexual development in adolescents in relation to environmental pollutants: a feasibility study of biomarkers

    Jan A. Staessen;Tim Nawrot;Elly Den Hond;Lutgarde Thijs

  • Cadmium and children: exposure and health effects.

    Greet Schoeters;Elly Den Hond;Moniek Zuurbier;Rima Naginiene

  • Genotoxic effects of carbon black particles, diesel exhaust particles, and urban air particulates and their extracts on a human alveolar epithelial cell line (A549) and a human monocytic cell line (THP-1).

    A. Don Porto Carero;P.H.M. Hoet;L. Verschaeve;G. Schoeters

  • Intrauterine Exposure to Environmental Pollutants and Body Mass Index during the First 3 Years of Life

    Stijn L. Verhulst;Vera Nelen;Elly Den Hond;Gudrun Koppen

  • The faroes statement: human health effects of developmental exposure to chemicals in our environment.

    Philippe Grandjean;Philippe Grandjean;David Bellinger;Åke Bergman;Sylvaine Cordier

  • First steps toward harmonized human biomonitoring in Europe: Demonstration project to perform human biomonitoring on a European scale

    Elly Den Hond;Eva Govarts;Hanny Willems;Roel Smolders

  • Endocrine disruptors and abnormalities of pubertal development.

    Greet Schoeters;Greet Schoeters;Elly Den Hond;Willem Dhooge;Nicolas Van Larebeke

  • Human biomonitoring as a tool to support chemicals regulation in the European Union.

    Catherine Ganzleben;Jean-Philippe Antignac;Robert Barouki;Argelia Castaño

  • Urinary BPA measurements in children and mothers from six European member states: Overall results and determinants of exposure

    Adrian Covaci;Elly Den Hond;Tinne Geens;Eva Govarts

  • Fourth WHO-coordinated survey of human milk for persistent organic pollutants (POPs): Belgian results.

    Ann Colles;Gudrun Koppen;Vincent Hanot;Vera Nelen

  • Health risk assessment of dioxin emissions from municipal waste incinerators: the Neerlandquarter (Wilrijk, Belgium).

    J Nouwen;C Cornelis;R De Fré;M Wevers

  • Endocrine disrupters and human puberty.

    E. Den Hond;G. Schoeters

  • Applicability of non-invasively collected matrices for human biomonitoring

    Roel Smolders;Karl-Werner Schramm;Marc Nickmilder;Greet Schoeters

  • Cohort Profile: Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium

    Janine F Felix;Bonnie R Joubert;Andrea A Baccarelli;Gemma C Sharp;Gemma C Sharp

  • Prenatal exposure to environmental contaminants and behavioural problems at age 7–8 years

    Isabelle Sioen;Isabelle Sioen;Elly Den Hond;Vera Nelen;Els Van de Mieroop

  • Human biomonitoring in health risk assessment in Europe: Current practices and recommendations for the future.

    Henriqueta Louro;Milla Heinälä;Jos Bessems;Jurgen Buekers

  • Fish consumption patterns and hair mercury levels in children and their mothers in 17 EU countries

    Argelia Castaño;Francisco Cutanda;Marta Esteban;Peter Pärt

  • Protective effect of the bile salt hydrolase-active Lactobacillus reuteri against bile salt cytotoxicity.

    P. De Boever;R. Wouters;L. Verschaeve;P. Berckmans

  • Association of Thyroid Hormone Concentrations with Levels of Organochlorine Compounds in Cord Blood of Neonates

    Johan Maervoet;Griet Vermeir;Adrian Covaci;Nicolas Van Larebeke

  • Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in human milk: a biomonitoring study in rural areas of Flanders (Belgium).

    K. Croes;K. Croes;A. Colles;G. Koppen;E. Govarts

Frequent Co-Authors

Gudrun Koppen
Gudrun Koppen University of Antwerp
Tim S. Nawrot
Tim S. Nawrot Hasselt University
Willy Baeyens
Willy Baeyens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marike Kolossa-Gehring
Marike Kolossa-Gehring German Environment Agency
Adrian Covaci
Adrian Covaci University of Antwerp
Holger M. Koch
Holger M. Koch Ruhr University Bochum
Milena Horvat
Milena Horvat Jožef Stefan Institute
Jos C. S. Kleinjans
Jos C. S. Kleinjans Maastricht University
Arno C. Gutleb
Arno C. Gutleb Wageningen University & Research
Peter Rudnai
Peter Rudnai National Institutes of Health

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