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Curriculum Vitae Gertie Arts
Personal information
Family name: Arts
First names : Gerarda Henrica Pia
Profession: Senior Aquatic Ecologist and Ecotoxicologist
Year of birth: 1959
Nationality: Dutch
Employer
Name: Alterra, Wageningen University and Research centre
Address: P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Country: The Netherlands
Phone / Fax Nº: +31 317 486550 / +31 317 419000
Email: Gertie.Arts@wur.nl
Internet: WE@WUR: Arts, Gertie
https://www.vcard.wur.nl/Views/Profile/View.aspx?id=1343;
http://www.narcis.nl/person/RecordID/PRS1298759
Education and Occupation
1971‐1977 Secondary School
1977‐1984 Biology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen
1984‐1989 PhD Research in the field of effect assessment of acidification and
eutrophication in soft‐water ecosystems.
1990 Doctor in Natural Sciences (Biology / Ecology)
1989‐1996 Aquatic Ecologist at Grontmij Consultancy. Involved in studies in the
field of aquatic ecology, surface water quality, aquatic ecosystem
research and aquatic ecosystem restoration.
From 1996 on Scientist at the Forest and Nature Institute, from 1998 Alterra,
Wageningen University and Research Centre. Research in the field of
effects of pesticides and eutrophication in small aquatic ecosystems
(field studies, mesocosms, experimental ditches). Higher Tier Risk
Assessment for pesticides. From 2008 on more focus on Aquatic
Macrophyte Risk Assessment for pesticides and other contaminants.
Courses She attended several courses in the field of project management.
She attended the Good Laboratory Practice course for Study
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Directors, Principal investigators, Study Staff and Management in
Cambridge (United Kingdom) in 2002.
Projects Since 2006 she was deputy Study Director and since 2010 she is
Study Director of studies under Good Laboratory practice.
Bibliography
Dr. Gertie H.P. Arts studied Biology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. She is
Doctor in the Natural Sciences and received her title in Aquatic Ecology at the same
University. She works at Alterra as a senior scientist in the Environmental Risk
Assessment team. She is involved in higher tier experiments for higher‐tier aquatic risk
assessment procedures for contaminants (e.g. for the registration of pesticides). She
works on the ecological evaluation of pesticide‐risks and on ecological and other
aspects of freshwaters in the Dutch agricultural landscape, e.g. multistress and
eutrophication. Recently, she is more and more involved in aquatic macrophyte risk
assessment, performing and directing research in the laboratory and in mesocosms.
Research focuses on the effects of contaminants on aquatic macrophytes in different
experimental settings and at different levels of biological organisation. Within the
Dutch Pesticides research Program, she participates as a project representative of the
theme "Ecological Risk Assessment of Pesticides”, dealing with the effects and
ecological risks in surface water. In 2008 she was deputy project leader of the Nature
Balance. For this project she worked three days per week at the Netherlands
Environmental Assessment Agency in Bilthoven in 2008. She has been member of
SETAC 2006 Scientific Committee. She has been co‐chair of the Organising Committee
of the AMRAP workshop focusing on Aquatic Macrophyte Risk assessment for plant
protection products and since 2009 she is chair of the Steering Committee of the
SETAC Advisory Group AMEG (Aquatic Macrophytes Ecotoxicology Group). Since 2010
she is member of the SETAC Europe Council. Since May 2011 she is Plant Editor of
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. From 14 May 2014 she will be vice‐
president of SETAC Europe. From May 2015 to May 2016 she will be president of
SETAC Europe. In 2014 she is chair of the Steering Committee of the non‐target
terrestrial plant workshop.
Graduate Committees
2001 Brouwer, E., 2001. Restoration of Atlantic softwater lakes and
perspectives for characteristic macrophytes. Thesis, Radboud
University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2011 Pulido, C., 2011. Isoetid eco‐physiology and O2. Thesis, Freshwater
Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Supervision of students
January 2011 – 2015 Supervision of Noel Diepens with respect to macrophyte
sediment toxicity in project CEFIC‐LRI Grant Proposal ECO17 “Evaluation of test
methods for measuring toxicity to sediment organisms”.
1 Nov 2013 – 1 May 2014. Supervision of Valérie Rijers. Soft‐water lakes in Europe.
1 Sept 2012 – 1 March 2013. Supervision of Jan‐Willem Wolters. Ecosystem services of
macrophyte vegetation.