International Society of Exposure Analysis
Distinguished Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Cornelis Johannes (Kees) van Leeuwen (Term 2007-2009)

Prof. Dr. Matti J. Jantunen (Term 2006-2008)

Prof. Dr. Cornelius Johannes (Kees) van Leeuwen (Term 2007-2009)

Kees van Leeuwen (1955) is Principal Scientist at TNO Quality of Life, The Netherlands, and retired from the European Commission in January 2007. He was Director of the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP), Ispra. He graduated at the University of Utrecht in 1980 (cum laude) and received his PhD in 1986. He started his environmental research career at the Dutch Ministry of Transport and Public Works in aquatic pollution research in 1980. His work gradually developed into science-policy advice and management of chemicals, health and environment in the Dutch Ministry of the Environment, the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, and the IHCP. He has been a member of ISEA, the OECD management board, the Dutch Health Council, the Royal Academy of Sciences, and the external science advisory panel of the Long Range Research Initiative of the chemical industry. He was part-time Professor in Toxicology at the Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences from 1992 to 2006.

As education and capacity builder, he has been a prominent speaker in many risk assessment courses and is best qualified to speak on risk assessment and management of chemicals, REACH, intelligent testing strategies and quantitative structure activity relationships. He has been involved as a scientist in a variety of activities in the OECD, European Union, United States Environmental Protection Agency, IPCS, industry (CEFIC, ECETOC), the Society of Environmental Toxicology and chemistry. He gave keynote lectures and published over 160 reports and publications and edited both the 1st (1995) and 2nd (2007) editios of a standard work on  risk assessment of chemicals.

Prof. Matti J. Jantunen (Term 2006-2008)

Prof. Jantunen, research professor at the Finnish National Public Health Institute – KTL – Department of Environmental Health in Kuopio, Finland, received his MSME in 1972 at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland, MSEE in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1978 at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill in the US. He is a founding member of the International Society for Indoor Air Quality (ISIAQ) and an active member and former president (2000-2001) of ISEA.

Prof. Jantunen is best qualified to speak on air pollution exposures, exposure monitoring and modeling methods, and the application of exposure science for air pollution risk assessment and risk management. His main interests focus on exposures derived from indoor and traffic sources, and exposures and related health risks from fine particulate matter. Prof Jantunen has served as an expert to the WHO, the EU and the U.S. EPA, and he has been invited to give plenary lectures and keynote talks at numerous conferences. Dr. Jantunen has authored and coauthored more than 400 scientific publications.

For information about the Distinguished Lecturer program or to request a speaker, contact the Chair of the ISEA Distinguished Lecturer Committee:

Yuri Bruinen de Bruin, PhD
Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Postbus 1
3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Email: yuri.bruinendebruin@gmail.com