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Rolf Altenburger is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research centers on environmental science with a focus on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Their work also explores pollution, molecular biology, environmental chemistry, and the intersection of sociology and political science within environmental contexts.

The scientist's main topics of study include environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, and pesticide and herbicide environmental studies. Additional topics encompass chemistry and chemical engineering, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, toxic organic pollutants impact, as well as health, environment, and cognitive aging.

Rolf Altenburger has contributed to several frequently published venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Archives of Toxicology
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Environmental Sciences Europe
  • Toxics

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Pesticides are the dominant stressors for vulnerable insects in lowland streams, 2021, Water Research
  • We need a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste, 2021, Science
  • Disentangling multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors in a lotic ecosystem using a longitudinal approach, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • The Eco-Exposome Concept: Supporting an Integrated Assessment of Mixtures of Environmental Chemicals, 2021, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Computational material flow analysis for thousands of chemicals of emerging concern in European waters, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Martin Krauß, Werner Brack, Jörg Hackermüller, Wibke Busch, and Beate I. Escher.

Best Publications

  • Predictability of the toxicity of multiple chemical mixtures to Vibrio fischeri: Mixtures composed of similarly acting chemicals

    Rolf Altenburger;Thomas Backhaus;Wolfgang Boedeker;Michael Faust

  • Joint algal toxicity of 16 dissimilarly acting chemicals is predictable by the concept of independent action.

    M Faust;R Altenburger;T Backhaus;H Blanck

  • Predicting the joint algal toxicity of multi-component s-triazine mixtures at low-effect concentrations of individual toxicants.

    M. Faust;R. Altenburger;T. Backhaus;H. Blanck

  • Benchmarking Organic Micropollutants in Wastewater, Recycled Water and Drinking Water with In Vitro Bioassays

    Beate I. Escher;Mayumi Allinson;Mayumi Allinson;Rolf Altenburger;Peter A. Bain

  • Predictability of the toxicity of a multiple mixture of dissimilarly acting chemicals to Vibrio fischeri

    Thomas Backhaus;Rolf Altenburger;Wolfgang Boedeker;Michael Faust

  • Mixture toxicity and its modeling by quantitative structure-activity relationships

    Rolf Altenburger;Monika Nendza;Gerrit Schüürmann

  • Towards the review of the European Union Water Framework Directive: Recommendations for more efficient assessment and management of chemical contamination in European surface water resources.

    Werner Brack;Werner Brack;Valeria Dulio;Marlene Ågerstrand;Ian Allan

  • What contributes to the combined effect of a complex mixture

    Rolf Altenburger;Helge Walter;Matthias Grote

  • Future water quality monitoring--adapting tools to deal with mixtures of pollutants in water resource management.

    Rolf Altenburger;Selim Ait-Aissa;Philipp Antczak;Thomas Backhaus

  • A general best-fit method for concentration-response curves and the estimation of low-effect concentrations

    Martin Scholze;Wolfgang Boedeker;Michael Faust;Thomas Backhaus

  • Future water quality monitoring: improving the balance between exposure and toxicity assessments of real-world pollutant mixtures

    Rolf Altenburger;Rolf Altenburger;Werner Brack;Werner Brack;Robert M. Burgess;Wibke Busch

  • Statement on advancing the assessment of chemical mixtures and their risks for human health and the environment.

    Elina Drakvik;Elina Drakvik;Rolf Altenburger;Yasunobu Aoki;Thomas Backhaus

  • Photostability and phytotoxicity of selected sunscreen agents and their degradation mixtures in water

    Rosario Rodil;Monika Moeder;Rolf Altenburger;Mechthild Schmitt-Jansen

  • Effect-based methods are key. The European Collaborative Project SOLUTIONS recommends integrating effect-based methods for diagnosis and monitoring of water quality

    Werner Brack;Selim Ait Aissa;Thomas Backhaus;Valeria Dulio

  • The SOLUTIONS project: challenges and responses for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management.

    Werner Brack;Rolf Altenburger;Gerrit Schüürmann;Martin Krauss

  • Most Oxidative Stress Response In Water Samples Comes From Unknown Chemicals: The Need For Effect-Based Water Quality Trigger Values

    Beate I. Escher;Charlotte van Daele;Mriga Dutt;Janet Y. M. Tang

  • Pesticides are the dominant stressors for vulnerable insects in lowland streams.

    Matthias Liess;Liana Liebmann;Philipp Vormeier;Oliver Weisner

  • Development of a bioanalytical test battery for water quality monitoring: Fingerprinting identified micropollutants and their Contribution to effects in surface water

    Peta A. Neale;Rolf Altenburger;Selim Aït-Aïssa;François Brion

  • Micropollutants in European rivers: a mode of action survey to support the development of effect-based tools for water monitoring.

    Wibke Busch;Susanne Schmidt;Ralph Kühne;Tobias Schulze

  • Phytotoxicity assessment of diclofenac and its phototransformation products

    Mechthild Schmitt-Jansen;Peter Bartels;Nicole Adler;Rolf Altenburger

  • Synergisms with mixtures of xenoestrogens: a reevaluation using the method of isoboles.

    Andreas Kortenkamp;Rolf Altenburger

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Brack
Werner Brack Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Beate I. Escher
Beate I. Escher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Thomas Backhaus
Thomas Backhaus University of Gothenburg
Leo Posthuma
Leo Posthuma Radboud University
Gerrit Schüürmann
Gerrit Schüürmann Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Martin Scholze
Martin Scholze Brunel University London
Henner Hollert
Henner Hollert Goethe University Frankfurt
Klára Hilscherová
Klára Hilscherová Masaryk University
Andreas Kortenkamp
Andreas Kortenkamp Brunel University London
Martin Krauss
Martin Krauss Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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