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Peter Fantke is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a particular focus on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Additional subfields include pollution, plant science, environmental engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Fantke's recent work encompasses a range of topics related to environmental impact and sustainability, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, air quality and health impacts, pesticide residue analysis and safety, effects and risks of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, recycling and waste management techniques, and pesticide exposure and toxicity.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Fantke include Olivier Jolliet, Nicolò Aurisano, Lei Huang, Natalie von Goetz, and Michael Zwicky Hauschild.

Their publications often appear in prominent academic venues, such as:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environment International
  • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Fantke include:

  • Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture, 2024, Science
  • LC-IMPACT: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method, 2020, Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • Addressing environmental sustainability of biochemicals, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Chemicals of concern in plastic toys, 2020, Environment International

Best Publications

  • IMPACT World+: a globally regionalized life cycle impact assessment method

    Cécile Bulle;Cécile Bulle;Manuele Margni;Laure Patouillard;Laure Patouillard;Anne-Marie Boulay

  • Variability of pesticide dissipation half-lives in plants

    Peter Fantke;Ronnie Juraske

  • Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture

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  • Ecological and human health risks associated with abandoned gold mine tailings contaminated soil.

    Veronica Mpode Ngole-Jeme;Peter Fantke

  • Health impact and damage cost assessment of pesticides in Europe.

    Peter Fantke;Rainer Friedrich;Olivier Jolliet

  • LCIA framework and cross-cutting issues guidance within the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative

    Francesca Verones;Jane Bare;Cecile Bulle;Rolf Frischknecht

  • Estimating Half-Lives for Pesticide Dissipation from Plants

    Peter Fantke;Brenda W. Gillespie;Ronnie Juraske;Olivier Jolliet

  • LC-IMPACT: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method

    Francesca Verones;Stefanie Hellweg;Assumpció Antón;Ligia B. Azevedo;Ligia B. Azevedo

  • Life cycle human health impacts of 875 pesticides

    Peter Fantke;Olivier Jolliet;Olivier Jolliet

  • Addressing environmental sustainability of biochemicals

    Ólafur Ögmundarson;Ólafur Ögmundarson;Markus J. Herrgård;Jochen Forster;Michael Zwicky Hauschild

  • Plant uptake of pesticides and human health: Dynamic modeling of residues in wheat and ingestion intake

    Peter Fantke;Raphaël Charles;Luiz Felippe de Alencastro;Rainer Friedrich

  • Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: impacts of climate change, fine particulate matter formation, water consumption and land use

    Olivier Jolliet;Assumpció Antón;Anne-Marie Boulay;Anne-Marie Boulay;Francesco Cherubini

  • Chemicals of concern in plastic toys

    Nicolò Aurisano;Lei Huang;Llorenç Milà i Canals;Olivier Jolliet

  • Dynamic Multicrop Model to Characterize Impacts of Pesticides in Food

    Peter Fantke;Ronnie Juraske;Assumpció Antón;Rainer Friedrich

  • Consensus Modeling of Median Chemical Intake for the U.S. Population Based on Predictions of Exposure Pathways

    Caroline L. Ring;Caroline L. Ring;Jon A. Arnot;Deborah H Bennett;Peter P. Egeghy

  • Dynamics of pesticide uptake into plants

    Peter Fantke;Peter Wieland;Cédric Wannaz;Rainer Friedrich

  • Analysing half-lives for pesticide dissipation in plants

    R.E. Jacobsen;Peter Fantke;Stefan Trapp

  • Addressing temporal considerations in life cycle assessment

    Didier Beloin-Saint-Pierre;Ariane Christine Albers;Arnaud Helias;Ligia Tiruta-Barna

  • Global guidance on environmental life cycle impact assessment indicators: progress and case study

    Rolf Frischknecht;Peter Fantke;Laura Tschümperlin;Monia Niero

  • USEtox® 2.0 Documentation (Version 1.00)

    Peter Fantke;Marian Bijster;Cécile Guignard;Michael Zwicky Hauschild

  • Indoor inhalation intake fractions of fine particulate matter: Review of influencing factors

    Natasha Hodas;Natasha Hodas;Miranda Loh;Hyeong-Moo Shin;Dingsheng Li

  • Towards harmonizing natural resources as an area of protection in life cycle impact assessment

    Thomas Sonderegger;Jo Dewulf;Peter Fantke;Danielle Maia de Souza;Danielle Maia de Souza;Danielle Maia de Souza

  • Defining Product Intake Fraction to Quantify and Compare Exposure to Consumer Products

    Olivier Jolliet;Alexi S. Ernstoff;Susan A. Csiszar;Peter Fantke

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Jolliet
Olivier Jolliet University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael Zwicky Hauschild
Michael Zwicky Hauschild Technical University of Denmark
Thomas E. McKone
Thomas E. McKone University of California, Berkeley
Assumpció Antón
Assumpció Antón Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
Bradley G. Ridoutt
Bradley G. Ridoutt Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Alexis Laurent
Alexis Laurent Technical University of Denmark
Serenella Sala
Serenella Sala European Commission Joint Research Centre
Manuele Margni
Manuele Margni Polytechnique Montréal

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