Benoit Ferrari (Co-Chair)
Director of the Ecotox Centre, Switzerland
Dr. Benoît J.D. Ferrari obtained his PhD in Ecotoxicology from the University of Lorraine (Metz, France) in 2000. After several years at the University of Geneva (Geneva, CH) and Inrae (formerly Cemagref/Irstea, Lyon, France), he joined the Ecotox Centre in October 2013 as group leader of the Soil and Sediment Ecotoxicology group at EPFL (Lausanne, CH). On 1 September 2019, he became interim director of the Ecotox Centre. In July 2021, he was appointed as the new director of the Ecotox Centre, while continuing to lead the Soil and Sediment ecotoxicology group. His main areas of interest are the ecodynamic of contaminants and their effects at different levels of biological organisation. In particular, he is involved in 1) the development of exposure- and effect-based tools to assess chemical stress, 2) the integration of such tools into laboratory- and field-based approaches to assess ecosystem quality, and 3) the transfer of such tools and approaches to end-users. See https://www.ecotoxcentre.ch/