Dr Bernhard Michalke
GSF National Research Center for Environmental and Health, Germany
PD Dr. Bernhard Michalke is leader of the research group "Elements and Element Speciation" and of the "Central Inorganic Analysis Division" of the GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, which is a member of the Helmholtz Association. He is also president of the German Trace Element and Mineral Society since 2004 and lecturer at the "Institute for Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry", Technical University of Graz, Austria since his habilitation in 1999. Bernhard is working on the Board of the "Federation of European Societies on Trace Elements and Minerals" (FESTEM) and is also member of the editorial board of the international FESTEM journal J. Trace Elem. Med. Biol.. Bernhard is currently focusing on projects related to environmental health, i.e. the exposition and chemical speciation of neuro-degenerative elements such as manganese and related neuro-toxic effects in the central nervous system, or the chemical speciation of incorporated stable isotopes for improving biokinetic models for radio isotopes after radiation accidents. Bernhard has published more than 100 peer reviewed articles and 7 book chapters. Since 1998 he organized three "Speciation Conferences" as well as one International Trace Element FESTEM conference and one National Trace Element Conference.
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