The modelers behind the model comparison and development of the USEtox model TM have founded the USEtox Team.
The aim of the USEtox Team is to provide scientific and technical rationale to the comparative assessment of chemicals based on their impacts on human health or ecosystems (as applied in life cycle impact assessment and comparative chemical risk assessment).
The team does so by
- creating and maintaining a model for calculation of characterization factors for human health and ecotoxic impacts
- increasing the availability and quality of characterization factors for use in LCIA and other comparative assessment contexts for all groups of chemicals
- disseminating the developed model and factors through organization of user workshops, courses and demonstration projects
In doing so, the USEtox Team contributes to create international consensus on the principles for comparative assessment of chemicals
The USEtox Team is a non-profit organization and its work is closely related to the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)-SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Life Cycle Initiative
The members of the consortium are (November 2009):
Mark Huijbregts, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
http://www.ru.nl/environmentalscience/about_the_department/staff/m_a_j_huijbregts/
E-mail:
Olivier Jolliet, PhD, Associate professor in impact and risk modeling at the School of Public Health of the University of Michigan
http://research.sph.umich.edu/index.php?g=7
E-mail:
Dik van de Meent, PhD, Senior researcher at Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
(RIVM) and professor at Department of Environmental Science Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
http://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/ncem/cv_dvdmeent_20060223.pdf
Email:
Thomas McKone, PhD, Deputy Department Head Indoor Environment Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and adjunct professor at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/people/mckone.htm
Email:
Ralph Rosenbaum, PhD, Associate professor, DTU Management Engineering, Section for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
http://www.man.dtu.dk/English/Service/Phonebook.aspx?lg=showcommon&id=59267&type=person
Email: rros [at] man.dtu.dk
Manuele Margni, PhD, Research Officer/Lecturer at CIRAIG - Interuniversity Research Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal
http://www.ciraig.org/en/fiche_manuele_margni_e.html
Email: Manuele.margni [at] polymtl.ca
Michael Hauschild, PhD, Professor, Head of section for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, DTU Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
http://www.man.dtu.dk/English/About/personer.aspx?lg=showcommon&id=849&type=person
Email: mic [at] man.dtu.dk