Environmental Risk Assessment and Management Group (ERAM)
The ERAM group is pioneering methods and applications in environmental risk assessment of novel materials and chemicals and is developing approaches to implement the Safe and Sustainable by Design concept, enabling a comprehensive and early view of opportunities and risks of new materials and technologies.
Development and Application of Methods
- Environmental risk assessment
- Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD)
- Experimental work on release of materials
- Material and Substance Flow Analysis
- Risk/benefit assessment
- Probabilistic Assessment and Meta-Analysis
- Guidelines and Tools
- Technology Assessment
- Life Cycle Assessment
Materials
- Advanced materials, inlcuding engineered nanomaterials and nanobiomaterials
- Microplastics and nanoplastics, including tire wear particles
- Plastics
- Bio-based polymers
- Side-chain fluorinated polymers, fluoropolymers and perfluoropolyethers
- Smart materials/products
Application fields
- Textiles
- Medicine
- Electronics
- Consumer products
- Biosensors
- Construction
Details on current and past projects can be found here.
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Group December 2022. Top row from left: David Mennekes, Tong Yang, Claudia Som, Akshat Sudheshwar, Merve Tunali, Zhanyun Wang, Bernd Nowack, Danyang Jiang, Manqi Gao; front row from left: Yuanfang Zheng, Nadia Malinverno, Barbora Pinlova, Yiwen Zhang; not on photo: Hyunjoo Hong
Contact
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Technology & Society Laboratory
Lerchenfeldstrasse 5
CH-9014 St. Gallen
Tel.: +41 58 765 76 92
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