Programme affiliate profiles
Moderator
Anthony Smith
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Anthony Smith works in the Department of Partnership and Cooperation, at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Anthony studied political science, economics and anthropology at university and has over 20 years of experience as a professional communicator in the public, private and non-profit sectors. He has an eclectic track record of communications management and operational content production involving print and online media, multilingual news copy and public information, audiovisual formats, web and social media channels; on topics ranging from sport, leisure and finance to policy analysis, scientific food safety risk assessment and communication methodologies. His current role at EFSA is risk communication scientist, in which he uses social research insights to develop communications approaches and to contribute to strategic communication planning and operations. Anthony’s research and contributions to EFSA outputs deal with topics on food safety risk communication, communication of scientific uncertainty and, in the future, risk/benefit communication.
Rapporteur
Thematic session
Putting science into context: the future of social science in risk analysis
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Interactive Ice-breaker
23/06 - 14:05
Moderator
23/06 - 14:00
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Andrea Terron
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Andrea Terron is a senior scientific officer working in EFSA’s PREV unit as a toxicologist in the mammalian toxicology team. He graduated with a degree in Veterinary Medicine and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, with experience in Toxicological Pathology and Toxicology. He also has experience of the risk assessment of medicines and plant protection products. Andrea has authored several pathology reports on drugs acting on the central nervous system, cardiovascular system, and on oncology. His interests also extend to target organ pathology, toxicological pathology, mechanistic studies, neurotoxicity, developmental neurotoxicity, and endocrine disruptors. He also participates in EFSA’s activities regarding developmental neurotoxicity and the assessment of endocrine disrupting properties for pesticide active substances. Another of his interests is the development and application of new alternative methodologies and their integration in regulatory risk assessment throughout an integrated approach of testing and assessment.
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Thematic session
Endocrine disruptors: exploring present challenges and future developments (in memory of Alfonso Lostia)
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Endocrine disruptors: exploring present challenges and future developments (in memory of Alfonso Lostia)
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Wrap up and concluding remarks
23/06 - 17:20
Chair/Co-chair
Domagoj Vrbos
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Domagoj Vrbos currently works as Team Leader in the Communication and Partnership Department of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma. His responsibilities relate to providing social science perspectives to different areas of EFSA’s work, including generating insights from society that can support the delivery of trustworthy assessment and communication of risks from farm to fork as well as evolving the social science methods and capabilities available to the organisation. His recent publications focus on social research in areas within the remit of the EU food safety system and the science of risk communication.
Prior to this assignment, he worked in areas of monitoring, evaluation and communication related to food and nutrition at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and lived and worked in Rome and Bangkok. He has a background in economics and consumer studies from University of Zagreb (Croatia) and holds a master’s degree in development studies from Universita’ La Sapienza (Italy).
Domagoj will be co-chairing the session on ‘Putting science into context: the future of social science in risk analysis’ within the One Society track of the ONE conference.
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Thematic session
Putting science into context: the future of social science in risk analysis
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Opening and welcome
22/06 - 14:00
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Putting science into context: the future of social science in risk analysis
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Wrap up and concluding remarks
22/06 - 16:55
Rapporteur
Giorgia Zamariola
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Giorgia Zamariola is a social scientist at EFSA who is passionate about social research and risk communication. She obtained a PhD in psychology at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium for her work focusing on the relationship between body, emotions, and eating behaviour. She conducted research with both general and clinical populations affected by obesity which helped her understand the perceptions people hold towards food and the vital role that safe and nutritious food plays in people’s lives.
As an enthusiastic human-mind and behaviour expert, she truly believes that an audience-first approach to risk communication requires the implementation of social research to understand citizens’ views, values, beliefs, and the cultural factors that influence their perceptions on food-related risks.
She is committed to contributing to the achievement of the strategic objectives within the Farm to Fork Strategy with the goal of improving human lives, the life and welfare of animals, and the life of our planet.
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Thematic session
Putting science into context: the future of social science in risk analysis
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Federica Barrucci
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Since 2015 Federica Barrucci works at EFSA as scientific officer. From January 2022 she works in the newly created KNOW Unit, where she is involved in foresight, innovation and knowledge management. Before she worked in the Assessment and Methodological Support Unit where she was involved in development of models for animal disease introduction and spread and models for chemical exposure assessment, in supporting implementation of methodological guidance on protocol development, systematic literature review, uncertainty assessment, Expert Knowledge Elicitation, in performing data management and data analysis, in assessing the feasibility of using innovative methodologies such as artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing.
Previously she worked at the Public Health and Risk Analysis Department of Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, where she was involved in microbiological risk assessments, chemical risk assessments, risk benefit assessments, source attribution, statistical data analysis and mathematical modelling in projects related to food safety, antimicrobial resistance and risk-based surveillance.
Federica has more than 15 years of experience in working on multidisciplinary projects, involving food microbiologists, chemists, veterinarians, epidemiologists, mathematicians, communication scientists and many others. She has a Master’s degree in statistics and economics and a PhD in statistics.
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23/06 - 14:00
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Luisa Ramos Bordajani
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Luisa Ramos Bordajandi is a pharmacist by training that holds a PhD in Science focused on the development of multidimensional analytical methods for the enantioselective analysis of contaminants in food, such as PCBs and toxaphenes. She carried out her post-doctoral research on the development of analytical methods and certified reference materials for the analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in food. In 2008 she joined EFSA and is since then a Scientific Officer in the Team that provides support to the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM Panel) and its Working Groups in the development of risk assessments related to the presence of contaminant, undesirable substances such as natural toxicants, mycotoxins and residues of unauthorised substances in food and feed. During these years she has been involved and coordinated the work that resulted in risk assessments on environmental contaminants such as brominated flame retardants (BFRs), chlorinated paraffins (CPs) and dioxins and DL-PCBs. In addition, she has been involved in the risk assessment of processing contaminants such as acrylamide, and natural toxins such as glycoalkaloids and mycotoxins.
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Thematic session
Combined exposure to multiple chemicals: assessing risks across regulatory silos
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Laura Martino
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Laura Martino is coordinator of the session 'Turning open science into practice'. She is a senior statistician at ESFA where she led the Systematic Review and Experimental Design Team from 2014 to 2017. Before joining EFSA in 2011, she served for 4 years as detached national expert at the European Statistical Institute (Eurostat) in Luxembourg. Previously, she worked as a researcher at the National Statistical Institute in Rome (Italy) leading the Unit Crop, forestry and hunting statistics in the Department for Statistical production. During that period, she was the Italian representative in the LUCAS EEC working groups. She has extensive experience in the design of observational and experimental studies as well as in the food and feed risk assessment. Her research focuses on modelling association between food/feed intake and health outcomes, evidence integration (including NAMs) and uncertainty analysis. She has participated to several international conferences and workshops as a lecturer. Her methodological expertise led her to contribute to several methodological guidance documents. In 2018, she joined an expert WG of the US National Academy of Science and is currently a member of a WHO working group. She holds a PhD in methodological statistic for scientific research, having completed postgraduate training at the University of Bologna and a 6-month scholarship at the Texas A&M University at College Station (USA). She is a member of the International Biometric Society and of the Society for Risk Analysis.
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23/06 - 14:00
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Bruno Dujardin
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Bruno Dujardin is a senior scientific officer at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and gained extensive experience in the regulatory risk assessment of chemicals. Throughout his career, Bruno has been responsible for dietary exposure assessment in different domains of EFSA (e.g. pesticides, feed additives, etc.), including methodological developments. He recently took up a new role as team leader of the Analysis Team, providing transversal scientific support on statistical data analysis, mathematical modelling, and exposure assessment. Within this capacity, he also steers the implementation of more holistic approaches that account for combined exposure to multiple chemicals.
Before joining EFSA in 2007, Bruno gained his first professional experience at the Federal Public Service for Public Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment in Belgium.
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Thematic session
Combined exposure to multiple chemicals: assessing risks across regulatory silos
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Matteo Lorenzo Innocenti
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Matteo Innocenti is a EFSA’s scientific officer in the new EFSA Unit FEEDCO. Matteo studied Animal Science in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Milan, where he obtained his PhD in Animal Nutrition and Food Safety. His research was focused on animal nutrition, with a specific attention on ruminants. During the PhD he joined as fellow student the Animal Science laboratory of the University of Arizona. After the PhD he worked as a postdoc in the University of Milan, leading research projects on development of innovative nutrition strategies for several animal species. Matteo joined EFSA in 2008. Since then, he was the scientific officer responsible for several Working Groups of the FEEDAP Panel, dealing with the assessment of the safety and the efficacy of different categories of feed additives. He was also contributing to the development of the FEEDA Panel guidance documents. Matteo was also collaborating with other EFSA’s Units and Panels on matters related to animal dietary exposure.
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23/06 - 14:00
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Renata Leuschner
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Renata Leuschner works as scientific officer in EFSA’s PLANT Unit, where she performs pesticide residue risk assessments in support of maximum residue level (MRL) setting and the pesticide peer review process. She has been working at EFSA for over 12 years performing microbiological, chemical, animal welfare and consumer risk assessments. She previously worked at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in the European Union Reference Laboratory for Feed Additives in Belgium and at the Unilever Research Centre in Colworth, UK. She was awarded a EU Marie Curie Fellowship and started her career as a post-doctoral scientist at the National Food Biotechnology Centre of the University College Cork in Ireland. She has contributed to a large number of presentations at conferences and workshops. She graduated from Hohenheim University in Germany where she obtained a degree in food science and technology and a PhD in food microbiology. Recently, she completed a M.Sc. in toxicology at the Medical University of Vienna and she is a Registered European Toxicologist (ERT).
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23/06 - 14:00
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Domenica Auteri
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Domenica Auteri is graduated in biology with a post-graduate degree in (eco)toxicology. She has been working in the field of environmental risk assessment of pesticides for more than 25 years, particularly within the European legislative framework related to the approval of pesticides. She joined the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in 2008 as ecotoxicologist. Before joining EFSA, she used to work at International Centre for Pesticide and Health Risk Prevention (ICPS), an Italian public health institute, where she was involved in research and analysis related to the prospective risk assessment of pesticides as well as on project associated to the management of the use of pesticides such as, for example, the implementation of risk mitigation measures, the prioritisation of substance for monitoring purposes. In EFSA, she is currently working in the Pesticide Peer Review Unit and, since 2011, she has been leading the team responsible for the evaluation of the risk to non-target organisms and for the development of guidance documents. Among her team’s activities, it is worth to mention the review of the risk assessment for bees of three neonicotinoid active substances, the development of the joint ECHA-EFSA guidance document to identify endocrine disruptors, the ongoing revision of guidance document for risk assessment of Birds and Mammals and of the guidance document for Bees.
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Thematic session
Environmental risk assessment of pesticides: transitioning to a systems-based approach
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Bernard Bottex
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
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Bernard Bottex is a Senior Scientific Officer coordinating Horizon Scanning in EFSA. Having an academic background in agronomy and plant protection, he joined EFSA 15 years ago and coordinated various working groups of the Scientific Committee, contributing to the development of assessment methodologies (e.g. introduction of the use of the benchmark dose approach in risk assessment). Furthermore, he is a Crisis Coordinator ensuring appropriate EFSA response in case of an urgent request for assistance from DG SANTE and the European Member States. In September 2020, Mr. Bottex became Leader of the Emerging Risks Team, undertaking responsibilities on EFSA's emerging risks identification and analysis activities. Since the beginning of 2022, he has been appointed as Team Leader in the Knowledge, Innovation and Partnership Management (KNOW) Unit to coordinate wider environmental scan activities and implement EFSA's innovation and transformation agenda. Among his priorities is to set up a system based on partnership for the early identification of issues implicating food or feed safety with relevance for EFSA.
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Thematic session
Infectious diseases, from emergence to pandemics: improving understanding and getting prepared
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