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Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

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72
Citations
17615
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1503
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105

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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Werner Brack is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research expertise centers on environmental science, with a publication record spanning multiple subfields, including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, ecology, molecular biology, and environmental chemistry.

Themes frequently addressed in Brack's work include pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, toxic organic pollutants, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, and analytical chemistry and chromatography.

Brack has contributed to scientific knowledge through publications in several key journals:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Sciences Europe
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environment International

Frequent collaborators in Brack's research include Martin Krauß, Tobias Schulze, Henner Hollert, Pedro A. Inostroza, and Matthias Liess.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Brack are:

  • "Pesticides are the dominant stressors for vulnerable insects in lowland streams" (2021), published in Water Research
  • "Remobilization of pollutants during extreme flood events poses severe risks to human and environmental health" (2021), published in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry" (2022), published in Environmental Sciences Europe
  • "A risk based assessment approach for chemical mixtures from wastewater treatment plant effluents" (2022), published in Environment International
  • "Assessing the Mixture Effects in In Vitro Bioassays of Chemicals Occurring in Small Agricultural Streams during Rain Events" (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Organic chemicals jeopardize the health of freshwater ecosystems on the continental scale

    Egina Malaj;Egina Malaj;Peter C. von der Ohe;Matthias Grote;Ralph Kühne

  • Effect-directed analysis: a promising tool for the identification of organic toxicants in complex mixtures?

    Werner Brack

  • Effect-directed analysis supporting monitoring of aquatic environments - An in-depth overview

    Werner Brack;Selim Ait-Aissa;Robert M. Burgess;Wibke Busch

  • 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

  • A new risk assessment approach for the prioritization of 500 classical and emerging organic microcontaminants as potential river basin specific pollutants under the European Water Framework Directive.

    Peter Carsten von der Ohe;Valeria Dulio;Jaroslav Slobodnik;Eric De Deckere

  • 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

  • The European technical report on aquatic effect-based monitoring tools under the water framework directive

    Ann-Sofie Wernersson;Mario Carere;Chiara Maggi;Petr Tusil

  • Identification of novel micropollutants in wastewater by a combination of suspect and nontarget screening.

    Christine Hug;Christine Hug;Nadin Ulrich;Tobias Schulze;Werner Brack

  • Effect-based trigger values for in vitro and in vivo bioassays performed on surface water extracts supporting the environmental quality standards (EQS) of the European Water Framework Directive.

    Beate I. Escher;Selim Aїt-Aїssa;Peter A. Behnisch;Werner Brack;Werner Brack

  • 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

  • Carbamazepine and its metabolites in wastewater: Analytical pitfalls and occurrence in Germany and Portugal.

    Arnold Bahlmann;Werner Brack;Rudolf J. Schneider;Martin Krauss

  • 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

  • Impact of untreated wastewater on a major European river evaluated with a combination of in vitro bioassays and chemical analysis.

    Maria Konig;Beate I. Escher;Peta A. Neale;Martin Krauss

  • Screening hundreds of emerging organic pollutants (EOPs) in surface water from the Yangtze River Delta (YRD): Occurrence, distribution, ecological risk.

    Ying Peng;Wendi Fang;Martin Krauss;Werner Brack

  • 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

  • Current EU research activities on combined exposure to multiple chemicals

    Stephanie K. Bopp;Robert Barouki;Werner Brack;Silvia Dalla Costa

  • An ecotoxicological view on neurotoxicity assessment

    J. B. Legradi;J. B. Legradi;C. Di Paolo;M. H. S. Kraak;H. G. van der Geest

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

    Matthias Liess;Liana Liebmann;Philipp Vormeier;Oliver Weisner

  • Linking in Vitro Effects and Detected Organic Micropollutants in Surface Water Using Mixture-Toxicity Modeling

    Peta A. Neale;Peta A. Neale;Selim Ait-Aissa;Werner Brack;Werner Brack;Nicolas Creusot

  • European demonstration program on the effect-based and chemical identification and monitoring of organic pollutants in European surface waters

    Zuzana Toušová;Peter Oswald;Jaroslav Slobodník;Luděk Bláha

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Krauss
Martin Krauss Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Henner Hollert
Henner Hollert Goethe University Frankfurt
Rolf Altenburger
Rolf Altenburger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Leo Posthuma
Leo Posthuma Radboud University
Beate I. Escher
Beate I. Escher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Gerrit Schüürmann
Gerrit Schüürmann Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Matthias Liess
Matthias Liess Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Juliane Hollender
Juliane Hollender Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Peter C. von der Ohe
Peter C. von der Ohe Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Helmut Segner
Helmut Segner University of Bern

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