Naouale El Yamani
Senior Scientist
+47 63 89 82 61
Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects
Kjeller
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Dr. Naouale El Yamani is a senior scientist at NILU’s Health Effects Laboratory. Her research connects chemical safety, human health and safer innovation. With expertise in genetic toxicology, nanotoxicology, and human biomonitoring, she combines experimental evidence, biomarkers, exposure information and statistical analysis to understand health concerns and support chemical safety decisions. Her work advances the development and application of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and their integration with computational approaches, read-across and mechanistic understanding for next-generation risk assessment (NGRA).
With a broad understanding of regulatory needs and experience in OECD Test Guidelines, method development, and GLP quality assurance, she contributes to generating and evaluating reliable, regulatory-relevant evidence. This includes assessing study quality, biological relevance and uncertainty to identify emerging concerns and evidence gaps.
She leads interdisciplinary research connecting chemical safety, Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) and Circular Economy, translating scientific knowledge into practical guidance for safer chemicals, materials and products.
Naouale El Yamani has 64 publications at NILU:
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Bio-based long lasting safe and sustainable by design surface coatings for demanding and extreme conditions (BLUECOAT)
Surface coatings are essential for protecting materials in demanding and harsh environments. However, many of them are fossil-based, which contributes considerably to energy consumption and climate change through GHG emissions. […]
Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC)
PARC is an EU-wide research and innovation partnership programme to support EU and national chemical risk assessment and risk management bodies with new data, knowledge, methods, networks and skills to […]
Strengthening the integrated approach of holistic impact assessments for Safe and Sustainable by Design plastic value chain (ANALYST)
ANALYST aims to accelerate the transition towards a safer and more sustainable industrial value chain while encouraging and expanding the existing knowledge on the safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) […]
Enhanced Safe and Sustainable coatings for supporting the Planet (PROPLANET)
PROPLANET addresses novel coating materials solutions, tackling the problem from a sustainable-business perspective, enabling overcoming the barrier for environmental protection, safety, chemical improvements, and circular value chains. The main goal […]
NanoInformatics Approaches for Safe-by-Design NanoMaterials (Compsafenano)
The unique properties of nanomaterials (NMs), relative to their bulk form, has seen them used in a rapidly increasing number of commercial applications. However, with these useful new properties of […]
Dr. Naouale El Yamani is a senior scientist at NILU’s Health Effects Laboratory. Her research connects chemical safety, human health and safer innovation. With expertise in genetic toxicology, nanotoxicology, and human biomonitoring, she combines experimental evidence, biomarkers, exposure information and statistical analysis to understand health concerns and support chemical safety decisions. Her work advances the development and application of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and their integration with computational approaches, read-across and mechanistic understanding for next-generation risk assessment (NGRA).
With a broad understanding of regulatory needs and experience in OECD Test Guidelines, method development, and GLP quality assurance, she contributes to generating and evaluating reliable, regulatory-relevant evidence. This includes assessing study quality, biological relevance and uncertainty to identify emerging concerns and evidence gaps.
She leads interdisciplinary research connecting chemical safety, Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) and Circular Economy, translating scientific knowledge into practical guidance for safer chemicals, materials and products.
Naouale El Yamani has 64 publications at NILU:
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Bio-based long lasting safe and sustainable by design surface coatings for demanding and extreme conditions (BLUECOAT)
Surface coatings are essential for protecting materials in demanding and harsh environments. However, many of them are fossil-based, which contributes considerably to energy consumption and climate change through GHG emissions. […]
Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC)
PARC is an EU-wide research and innovation partnership programme to support EU and national chemical risk assessment and risk management bodies with new data, knowledge, methods, networks and skills to […]
Strengthening the integrated approach of holistic impact assessments for Safe and Sustainable by Design plastic value chain (ANALYST)
ANALYST aims to accelerate the transition towards a safer and more sustainable industrial value chain while encouraging and expanding the existing knowledge on the safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) […]
Enhanced Safe and Sustainable coatings for supporting the Planet (PROPLANET)
PROPLANET addresses novel coating materials solutions, tackling the problem from a sustainable-business perspective, enabling overcoming the barrier for environmental protection, safety, chemical improvements, and circular value chains. The main goal […]
NanoInformatics Approaches for Safe-by-Design NanoMaterials (Compsafenano)
The unique properties of nanomaterials (NMs), relative to their bulk form, has seen them used in a rapidly increasing number of commercial applications. However, with these useful new properties of […]