Tamara Grummt

German Federal Environmental Agency, Branch Bad Elster. She was trained as a biologist at the Martin Luther University of Halle.

She worked at the University of Halle as a scientific co-worker until 1983 and completed her PhD thesis in 1983. Since 1983 she joined the Institute of Environmental Hygiene Bad Elster (after the reunification the Federal Environmental Agency), working as the Head of the Department “Toxicology of drinking and swimming pool water”. She carried out work in the area of aquatic genotoxicology, including an assessment of human hazard and risk. A major part of her work concerns establishing guidelines for drinking and swimming pool water. For example, her activities in this area have resulted in a number of improvements in designing and integrating biomonitoring programmes for risk assessment and prediction which in turn have led to a better understanding of particular biomarkers.

Her current research programme also contains innovative elements from which further development in the area of the development of biomarker-based approaches to protect environmental and human health can be expected. She is the author of scientific publications in the field of genotoxicological studies in aquatic systems and human monitoring.

She has established a number of successful national and international collaborations, including the organization of international scientific meetings. She is an active member of numerous German governmental committees and an expert on several committees on genotoxic exposure and human health.