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Rik Eggen
| Prof. Dr. Rik Eggen Directorate Eawag Ueberlandstrasse 133 P. O. Box 611 8600 Duebendorf Switzerland | Phone +41 44 823 5320 Fax +41 44 823 5398 Office FC-E02 rik.eggen@eawag.ch |
Rik Eggen
- Professional Experience
- Professional Activities
- Education and degrees
- Teaching activities
- Major research interest
- Supervision of Ph.D students
- List of publications
Professional Experience
| 1999-to date | Lecturer at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. |
| 1994-to date | Senior Scientist at the Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland. |
| 1992-1994 | Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Microbiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. |
| 1988-1992 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands. |
| 1984-1988 | Research Assistant, Department of Molecular Biology, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands. |
Professional Activities
| 2008-to date | Member of the Board of directors of the centre for applied ecotoxicology in Switzerland. |
| 2007-to date | Deputy Director of Eawag. |
| 2007-2008 | Chairman Taskforce to establish the centre for applied ecotoxicology in Switzerland. |
| 2007 | Co-organizer Latsis symposium September 17-19, 2007 - Research frontiers in Environment and Sustainability, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. |
| 2006-to date | Member of the steering board of the Swiss Environmental Protection Agency for a large scale project on “ the reduction of the entrance of micropollutants in ecosystems”. |
| 2006-2008 | Member of the Management Committee of the Competence Centre Environment and Sustainability (CCES) in the ETH domain. |
| 2005-to date | Co-coordinator of the EC-funded “FaceIt” project (Total volume 4,049,011 Euro). |
| 2005-2007 | Member of the Eawag directorate. |
| 2004-2007 | Head, Research division Environmental Toxicology at the Eawag. |
| 2004-2005 | Head (ad interim) Research division Environmental Microbiology at the Eawag. |
| 2004-to date | Vice-president competence centre for xenobiotic and environmental risk research Zürich (XERR). |
| 2003-2005 | Member strategic planning committee at the Eawag. |
| 2002-2003 | Member “Unterrichtskommission” for the development of a new curriculum at the “centre for environmental studies”, ETH Zürich. |
| 2000-2004 | Head, Research division Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Ecotoxicology at the Eawag. |
| 2000-2007 | Member of the project management-team of the multidisciplinary Querproject “Novaquatis” at Eawag (total volume 1’260’000 SFr.). |
| 1999-2004 | Member Leitungsausschuss of the competence center for xenobiotic and environmental risk research Zürich (XERR). |
| 1999-2002 | Co-coordination (with Marc Suter) of Eawag participation in EC-funded “COMPREHEND” project (Total volume of 720’000 SFr.). |
| 1999 | Member of the reorganization committee at the Eawag. |
| 1998-2004 | Member of Expertgroup "Wirkungsbezogene Verfahren zur Gewässerbewertung" im Hauptausschuss II der Fachgruppe Wasserchemie, Gesellschaft für deutscher Chemiker. |
| 1998-1999 | Member Task Force for the preparation of a new phase of the Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology (ISCB). |
| 1997-2004 | Member of the coordinationgroup Hauptausschusses II “ Stoffe und Gewassergüte”, Gesellschaft für deutscher Chemiker. |
| 1997-1998 | Projectleader on an interdisciplinary Eawag project to diminish a crayfish Procambarus clarkii population in the Schübelweiher, a small lake near Zürich. |
| 1996-2000 | Head of the department of Microbiology at the Eawag. |
| 1995-1999 | Chairman Forum for Ecotoxicology at the Eawag. |
| 1994-2008 | Head research group molecular ecotoxicology at the Eawag. |
| 1993 | Chairman Organization Committee International Symposium "Microbes in Engineered Ecosystems", Wageningen, The Netherlands. |
| 1993 | Guest Editor special issue of FEMS Microbiology Reviews. |
| 1984-1994 | Leader Isotope Laboratory, Departments of Molecular Biology (1984-1988) and Microbiology (1988-1994). |
| 1988-1994 | Leader Recombinant DNA Laboratory, Department of Microbiology. |
Education and degrees
| 2004 | Adjunct Professor, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. |
| 1984-1988 | Ph.D, Department of molecular biology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands (Dr. rer. nat.). |
| 1978-1984 | M.Sc. in Biology (majors in molecular biology and cell biology, minor in microbiology), Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. |
Teaching activities
| 2008-to date | Lecturer at ETHZ: Practical course: Molecular Ecotoxicology. |
| 2007 | Lecturer at ETHZ: Practical course: Molecular Ecology and Ecotoxicology. |
| 2007-to date | Lecturer at ETHZ: Fate, Bioavailability and Effects of Contaminants. |
| 2006-to date | Lecturer at ETHZ: Grundlagen in der Ökotoxikologie. |
| 2003-2006 | Lecturer at ETHZ: Mechanisms in toxicology. |
| 2002-to date | Lecturer at ETHZ: Umweltchemie I: Grundlagen der Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie. |
| 2002 | Lecturer at COETOX (collaboration in ecotoxicology, EPFL-Eawag): endocrine disruption, mechanisms, screening methods and strategies, cases. |
| 2001 | PEAK Course co-leader and lecturer at the Eawag on: “biologische Mikroanalytik in Umweltsystemen”. |
| 2000-2006 | Lecturer at ETHZ: Umweltchemie II: allgemeine Toxikologie und Ökotoxikologie. |
| 1999-2005 | Lecturer at ETHZ: Integriertes Grundpraktikum IV: Mikrobiologie. |
| 1999-2005 | Lecturer at ETHZ: Umweltmikrobiologie I. |
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1999/2001/ 2003/2008 |
Lecturer at NDK course (ETH Zürich) on " Risiko und Sicherheit: chemische Stoffe und Umwelteffekte". |
| 1998 | PEAK Course co-leader and lecturer at the Eawag on: ”moderne methoden zum Nachweis von Mikroorganismen und deren Aktivität”. |
| 1995-1996 |
Lecturer
at Peak Courses at the Eawag on:
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| 1991-1994 |
Lecturer
of EEC/EERO-Courses (European Environmental Research Organization) on:
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| 1993-1994 | Lecturer at the Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands on regulation of microbial metabolism. |
| 1993-1994 | Supervisor problem-oriented teaching projects, department of Microbiology, Wageningen Agricultural University. |
| 1984-1988 | Practical course in molecular biology. |
| 1989-1994 | Practical course in microbiology. |
| 1984-to date | About 30 Masterstudents have been co-supervised during their practical training (6 to 12 month each). |
Major research interest
- experimental toxicology
- molecular stress responses ((photo)-oxidative stress, DNA damage, developmental toxicology)
- functional toxicogenomics
- development of mechanism-based effect assessment tools (biomarkers, biosensors, arrays)
Supervision of Ph.D students
| 2006-to date | Holger Nestler. Investigations on Multiple Stressor Effects of Combined Herbicide and UV Exposure on Clamydomonas reinhardtii (collaboration with Marc Suter). |
| 2009 | Régine Dayer. Regulation of singlet oxygen- induced Gpxh expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. |
| 2009 | Mirjam Fröhlicher. Mechanisms of action of (xeno)estrogens on the early development and differentiation of brain and gonads in zebrafish (collaboration with Prof. Stephan Neuhauss and Prof. Helmut Segner). |
| 2008 | Christiane Vögeli. Endocrine disruption: bioassay-directed fractionation of fish and human tissue samples (collaboration with Dr. Marc Suter). |
| 2007 | Nathalie Vallotton. Effect Assessment of Fluctuating Exposure of Herbicides with Different Modes of Action on Algae (collaboration with Nathalie Chèvre). |
| 2006 | Ksenia Cheshenko. Regulation of (xeno)estrogen-activated genes in zebrafish (collaboration with Prof. Helmut Segner). |
| 2006 | Evangelia Kallivretaki. Mechanisms of action of (xeno)estrogens on the early development and differentiation of brain and gonads in zebrafish. (collaboration with Prof. Stephan Neuhaus and Prof. Helmut Segner). |
| 2006 | Jane Muncke. Development of a mechanism-based, short-term test-system with zebrafish eggs for the detection of potential chronic toxicity. |
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2004 |
Beat Fischer. Molecular mechanisms of singlet oxygen reponse in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. |
| 2003 | Barbara Rutishauser. Analysis, development and use of in vitro tools to screen for estrogenicity in environmental samples. |
| 2001 | Urs Leisinger. Regulation of gene expression upon oxidative stress in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. |
| 1999 | Nina Schweigert. Modes of toxic action and toxicity of (chloro)-catechol/copper combinations (has obtained the “Otto Jaag Price for water protection”). |
| 1999 | Joyce Lebbink. Molecular characterization of the thermostability and catalytic properties of enzymes from hyperthermophiles (Co-supervision with Prof. Willem M. de Vos). |
| 1998 | Wilfried G.B. Voorhorst. Molecular characterization of hydrolytic enzymes from the hyperthermophilic archae (Co-supervision with Porf. Willem M. de Vos). |
| 1993 | Jörk Nölling. Mobile genetic elements in Methanobacterium thermoformicicum (Co-supervision with Prof. Willem M. de Vos). |
| 1992 | Jan Roelof van der Meer. Molecular mechanisms of adaptation of soil bacteria to chlorinated benzenes (Co-supervision with Prof. Willem M. de Vos and Prof. Alexander JB Zehnder). |