Chris Collins

Reading, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Professor of Environmental Chemistry at University of Reading

Education

My research and teaching addresses the fate of pollutants in the soil-plant system. This has been developed through multidisciplinary collaborations with industry, regulators and academics nationally and internationally, to determine the impacts of environmental exposure of humans and other biota to these toxic chemicals. The outputs from my group's research have been used to validate models and quantify exposure pathways. Recently we developed an in-vitro gut system (CEPBET) for the determination of the bioaccessibility of organic pollutants. Additionally they have produced a framework for exposure models for the Intergovernmental Group on the Risk to Health from Chemicals so that the l...