Eleonora Marta Longhin
Dr. Eleonora Longhin is a senior scientist at NILU in the department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects. She is a biologist with expertise in (advanced) in vitro models for assessing the toxicological effects and mechanisms of action of airborne particulate matter (PM), nanomaterials and other emerging contaminants. Her competencies include predictive toxicology, mode of action analysis, and the integration of mechanistic hazard data into Next-Generation Risk Assessment (NGRA) frameworks.
A key focus of her recent work is the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approach, embedding safety considerations from the earliest stages of chemicals and materials development. In this context, she contributes to defining testing strategies, developing mechanistic hazard assessment methods, and translating toxicological evidence into recommendations that minimize risks throughout the product life cycle. Through the European projects PROPLANET, ANALYST and PARC, Dr. Longhin actively collaborates with industrial partners, regulators, and academic institutions to ensure that innovative materials meet both performance and safety requirements in line with European policy objectives.
Beyond her research, she has played pivotal roles in large-scale collaborative initiatives, acting as project manager for the H2020 project RiskGONE and serving as Principal Investigator, task or Work Package leader, for several national and international projects. She is also a member of the Toxicology Section Board of the Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (NSFT).
Silje Winnem
Silje Winnem is the administration coordinator in the Department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects at NILU. She is located in The Fram Centre in Tromsø.
As administrative coordinator, Winnem is responsible for all the administrative work and plays a key role in tying together the various disciplines and departments into one business. She is an active partner and facilitator, and is systematic, service-minded, responsible and proactive.
She is also a member of the User Committee at The Fram Centre, where NILU in Tromsø is located, and is active in the collaboration between the other 20 institutions in the building.
Hilde Thelle Uggerud
Dr. Hilde Thelle Uggerud is a senior researcher at the Department of Environmental Chemistry and head of the Section for Metal and Inorganic Analysis. She works with analytical environmental chemistry and has particular expertise in plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and determination of metals in environmental samples.
Her professional focus is dispersion and long-distance transport of metals in the environment as well as biomonitoring of air quality, especially using moss as a biomonitor. She is also responsible for method development and validation.
Hilde has a science degree and a PhD from the University of Oslo, and extensive experience in project management. She is a quality manager with overall responsibility for NILU's laboratories accredited according to ISO/IEC 17025.
Pawel Rostkowski
Dr. Pawel Rostkowski is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects at NILU (Norway). He specializes in environmental analytical chemistry, focusing on identifying and characterizing emerging contaminants, particularly through non-target and suspect screening methods using high-resolution mass spectrometry.
Throughout his career, Rostkowski has developed innovative methods for detecting organic contaminants across various environmental matrices, products, and food contact materials.
In addition to his research, he plays an active role in various international scientific and regulatory organizations. He is a member of the Steering Committee for the NORMAN Association, which addresses emerging pollutants in Europe, and represents Norway in the European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET) Chemicals Expert Group.
He is also involved in BP4NTA (Benchmarking and Prioritization of Non-Target Analysis), an initiative focused on advancing non-target analytical techniques and establishing best practices for prioritizing unknown environmental contaminants. Furthermore, Rostkowski contributes as an expert in the ISO technical committee ISO/TC 147/SC 2/WG 85, dedicated to developing standards for non-target screening and enhancing methods for environmental monitoring and chemical risk assessment.
Pernilla Bohlin-Nizzetto
Dr. Pernilla Bohlin Nizzetto is Research Director and Head of NILU's Department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects.
She holds a MSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Occupational and Environmental Medicine from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden in collaboration with Lancaster University in the UK. She also has a 2-year post-doc from RECETOX at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.
Since 2022, Nizzetto coordinates the Horizon Europe project INQUIRE (Identification of chemical and biological determinants, their sources, and strategies to promote healthier homes in Europe), which is part of the EU's IDEAL Cluster. In INQUIRE, the goal is to improve air quality and reduce the occurrence and exposure to harmful substances in indoor environments.
During her 15 years as a researcher in environmental chemistry, Nizzetto has focused on environmental chemistry issues indoors and outdoors with a desire to protect people, the environment and ecosystems.
Vladimir A. Nikiforov
Vladimir Nikiforov is a synthetic organic, organofluorine and physical organic chemist by background. In addition, he has 30+ years of experience in environmental chemistry with emphasis on trace organic analytical chemistry.
His key expertise and research interest are: QSAR, PFAS, NTS, SVOC, suspect screening, microplastic, synthesis of standards, method development, GC, LC, MS, NMR, Fate model, transformation products, reactivity of organic molecules, transformation kinetics, transformation reactivity, transformation persistency, UV-compounds, tire additives, air sampling, air monitoring, Arctic pollution, derivatization method, structure elucidation, international regulation, and chemical education.
Ingjerd Sunde Krogseth
Dr. Ingjerd S. Krogseth is a senior scientist in the Department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects at NILU, as well as an adjunct professor at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. She is located in the Fram Centre in Tromsø.
Krogseth conducts research on how organic contaminants behave in the environment and food chains, motivated by a desire to protect the environment, ecosystems, and humans from harmful compounds. She is particularly interested in new environmental contaminants that are still unregulated, in order to contribute to a sound scientific basis for decision-making for national and international environmental authorities. Another focus area is how ongoing climate change affects the fate of organic contaminants in the environment and ecosystems.
Krogseth works extensively with the development, evaluation and application of contaminant models for ecosystems and food chains. These models are used in combination with actual measurements from the environment to understand more about how the contaminants are transported to and end up in organisms and food chains. She is particularly interested in organic contaminants in Arctic ecosystems, and she works closely with biologists and ecotoxicologists at other institutions in the Fram Centre through the Fram Centre's research programmes.