Wataru Naito
Group Leader, Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability (RISS), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Dr. Wataru Naito is currently a group leader of Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability (RISS) at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. At AIST-RISS, research of his group focuses broadly on risk assessment and management of various kind of hazards (chemicals, nanomaterials, radiation and microbiological). Currently, his research activities include developing methods for obtaining missing data for risk assessment of chemicals and promoting pragmatic risk assessment for solving social issues such as radiation exposure owing to the 2011 Fukushima accident, microplastics and SARS-Cov-2 viruses. He has served on a variety of expert advisory committees related environmental risk-related issues for central and local governments and been a member the Working Party on Exposure Assessment (WPEA) in OECD since the noughties. Dr. Naito received a BS in Environmental Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), a MA and PhD in Materials Science and Chemical Engineering from Yokohama National University.
Andrea Hinwood was appointed the Chief Scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in March 2021 and serves as a primary advisor on science related matters. She is an environmental scientist with a PhD in environmental epidemiology with over twenty years’ experience in researching and managing environmental exposures and health. She is the former and inaugural Chief Environmental Scientist of EPA Victoria and has held senior positions in academia and government. She was the Deputy Chair of the Environmental Protection Authority of WA and a sessional of the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia.
Framing the Narrative: In this presentation, IEAM Editor-in-Chief Sabine Apitz will help authors fine-tune their writing style for research that doesn’t neatly fit into a traditional research article. She will discuss the differences in framing for the two SETAC journals, which can be applied more broadly. (Speaker: IEAM Editor in Chief Sabine Apitz; BST)