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.
Ann-Karin (Anka) Hardie Olsen
Dr. Ann-Karin (Anka) Olsen is a senior scientist at NILU in the department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects.
She is a molecular biologist with expertise in toxicology, with main areas of expertise in genetic toxicology, DNA damage and repair, mutagenesis, DNA sequencing, gene expression, epigenetics, endocrine effects and cancer, with special focus on male germ cells.
She has experience with models from bacteria, yeast, cell models (2C, 3D, stem cells), animal experiments and human cohort studies. She has established several state-of-the-art analysis methods, with a focus on the development of new methodologies, so-called NAMs (New Approach Methods), preferably according to the principle of SSbD (Safe and Sustainable by Design)
Anka started at NILU in 2024 after a long time at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in the Department of Chemical Toxicology as a research professor.
She has led several national and international projects and led the work package on “Biological effects” through 10 years for the Center of Excellence ( CoE/ RCN Sff) Center for Radioactivity, Humans and the Environment (CERAD; 2013-2023. Led by NMBU).
She has long experience in human risk assessment and regulatory toxicology, mainly of consumer products (expert for the European Chemicals Agency ECHA), and food. She is involved in several working groups in the OECD and has contributed to the development of standardized OECD tests for use in chemical regulation. She leads the OECD project for the revision of the in vivo comet assay (OECD Test guideline 489) to include analyses of male germ cells. She is part of the Scientific Committee for Food and the Environment (VKM), participates in several working groups in the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) and the International Workshops on Genotoxicity Testing (IWGT), and is president of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS).
Yvan Joseph Orsolini
Dr. Yvan Orsolini joined NILU in March 1998 as a senior researcher posted at Kjeller, Norway.
He earned his MSc. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois (Urbana, USA) and his PhD is in geophysics from the University of Washington (Seattle, USA). He has worked with dynamics, chemistry and remote sensing of the middle atmosphere and, in particular, with the Earth’s ozone layers and the solar radiative and particle impacts on the atmosphere.
Another area of research is cryosphere-atmosphere interaction, in particular the role of snow and sea ice in the climate system and in seasonal predictions.
He has a long experience working with general circulation models, either atmosphere-only or coupled ocean-atmosphere models, including whole-atmosphere models (such as WACCM) which extends into the lower thermosphere, as well with seasonal prediction systems. He has also contributed to the analysis of numerous satellite remote sensing datasets (UARS, SABER, ENVISAT, MLS, SOFIE,…), and atmospheric re-analyses regarding dynamics or composition.
He has coordinated one European project and several Norwegian Research Council projects on behalf of NILU, while participating to numerous other projects. He was affiliated part-time (20%) with University of Bergen (2010-2020) and with NTNU (2020-2023).
His h-index is 40, with over 5000 citations (Google Scholar).