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Lehrveranstaltungen

Wintersemester 2024/25
Angleichungsmodul Systemwissenschaft (MSc)
Chemodynamik
Erstsemestereinführung FB Mathematik/Informatik/Physik
Masterprojekt
Mathematische Software
Mechanistische Effekt-Modellierung
Seminar Umweltmodellierung
Studienprojekt Umweltsystemwissenschaft

Lebenslauf

Andreas Focks obtained a Diploma (Msc) in Applied Systems Science from the University Osnabrück (Germany) in 2005. In his PhD, finished in 2009, and a following PostDoc work, he worked about modelling chemical fate dynamics and effects of veterinary medicines in soils. Andreas changed to Wageningen University in 2011 for a PostDoc in the MarieCurie ITN program CREAM “Mechanistic Effect Models for Ecological Risk Assessment of Chemicals”, where he worked on ecological effect modelling for pesticides at landscape scales. Andreas worked from 2012 to 2021 as ecological modeller at the research institute Wageningen Environmental Research (formerly ‘Alterra’), as part of Wageningen University and Research Centre (The Netherlands). He was involved in several national and international research projects in the context of environmental risk assessment of chemicals, amongst others in projects for the Dutch government about toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic modelling of chemical effects for aquatic macroinvertebrates (2013-2020). Andreas was responsible scientist in Wageningen for the EU 7^th framework research project “SOLUTIONS for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management” (2013-2018) with contributions in community- and traits-based identification of chemical effects and ecological modelling. He worked since November 2016 as external scientific expert for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), amongst others in the working group on toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic and simple food chain modelling, and since July 2020 as member of the panel for Plant Protection Products and their Residues (PPR). Since 2008, Andreas (co-) authored >50 papers in peer reviewed journals. He is member and actively participating in the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), where he is member of the steering committee of the interest group ‘Effect modelling’ and chair of the working group on ‘Model acceptability criteria, version control and scenario development’.
As of April 1st 2021,  Andreas changed to University of Osnabrück for a substitute professorship for "Environmental Systems Modelling", and was appointed as full professor for "Environmental Systems Modelling" in November 2021

Education
2005-2009 Dr. rer.nat. (Ph.D) Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Osnabrück (Germany): Summa cum laude   1998-2005   Diploma (MSc) Applied Systems Science University of Osnabrück (Germany): Very Good
Work Experience Since 11/2022 Full professorship for "Environmental Systems Modelling" Osnabrück University 04/2021 - 10/2021 Substitute professorship for "Environmental Systems Modelling" Osnabrück University 08/2012- 03/2021               Ecological Modeller Alterra,  Wageningen, The Netherlands ·       Project leader “Toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic modeling of chemical effects on aquatic invertebrates” funded by Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs (2013 – current).  ·       Work package lead “Ecological Assessment of toxic effects of chemicals in  large European Rivers” within the EU 7th framework project SOLUTIONS (2013 -2018) 02/2011- 07/2013   PostDoc Wageningen University, Chairgroup Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality ·      Research Fellow  (PostDoc) in the Marie Curie ITN "Mechanistic Effect Models for Ecological Risk Assessment of Chemicals (CREAM)" and responsible for the subproject "Scales-4: Extrapolating from local to regional effects of chemical stressors" at Wageningen University   06/2008 – 01/2011 PostDoc Institute for Environmental Systems Research Osnabrück (Germany) ·    Research Fellow in the DFG research unit “Veterinary Pharmaceuticals in Soils: Basic Research for Risk Analysis” and responsible for the subproject “Modelling of Rhizosphere Influences on the Interaction between Chemodynamics and Effects of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals”     06/2005 – 05/2008           PhD student Institute for Environmental Systems Research Osnabrück (Germany) ·  Research Assistant (PhD student) in the DFG research unit Veterinary Pharmaceuticals in Soils: Basic Research for Risk Analysis, subproject Mathematical Modelling of the Effect of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals

Publikationen

Bibliometric data (Scopus, 21/01/2021) 
Documents: 51 (of 61 in Scopus, excluding 10 publications in EFSA journal on safety assessment of feed additives)
Citations: 1465 total citations by 1239 documents
h-index: 18 
 
 

1. Heuer H, Focks A, Lamshöft M, Smalla K, Matthies M, Spiteller M. Fate of sulfadiazine administered to pigs and its quantitative effect on the dynamics of bacterial resistance genes in manure and manured soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2008;40(7):1892-900.
2. Schauss K, Focks A, Heuer H, Kotzerke A, Schmitt H, Thiele-Bruhn S, et al. Analysis, fate and effects of the antibiotic sulfadiazine in soil ecosystems. TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 2009;28(5):612-8.
3. Schauss K, Focks A, Leininger S, Kotzerke A, Heuer H, Thiele-Bruhn S, et al. Dynamics and functional relevance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in two agricultural soils. Environmental Microbiology. 2009;11(2):446-56.
4. Focks A, Klasmeier J, Matthies M. Mechanistic link between uptake of sulfonamides and bacteriostatic effect: Model development and application to experimental data from two soil microorganisms. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 2010;29(7):1445-52.
5. Zheng C, Focks A, Ellebrake K, Eggers T, Fries E. Sorption of ortho-Phenylphenol to Soils. Clean - Soil, Air, Water. 2011;39(2):116-20.
6. Heuer H, Solehati Q, Zimmerling U, Kleineidam K, Schloter M, Müller T, Focks A.,. (…). Accumulation of sulfonamide resistance genes in arable soils due to repeated application of manure containing sulfadiazine. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2011;77(7):2527-30.
7. Richter MK, Focks A, Siegfried B, Rentsch D, Krauss M, Schwarzenbach RP, et al. Identification and dynamic modeling of biomarkers for bacterial uptake and effect of sulfonamide antimicrobials. Environmental Pollution. 2013;172:208-15
8. Müller T, Rosendahl I, Focks A, Siemens J, Klasmeier J, Matthies M. Short-term extractability of sulfadiazine after application to soils. Environmental Pollution. 2013;172:180-5.
9. Van den Brink PJ, Baird DJ, Baveco HJ, Focks A. The use of traits-based approaches and eco(toxico)logical models to advance the ecological risk assessment framework for chemicals. Integrated environmental assessment and management. 2013;9(3).
10. Schäfer RB, Bundschuh M, Focks A, von der Ohe PC. To the editor. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 2013;32(4):734-5.
11. Rico A, Geng Y, Focks A, Van den Brink PJ. Modeling environmental and human health risks of veterinary medicinal products applied in pond aquaculture. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 2013;32(5):1196-207.
12. Reichel R, Rosendahl I, Peeters ETHM, Focks A, Groeneweg KJI, Bierl R. Effects of slurry from sulfadiazine- (SDZ) and difloxacin- (DIF) medicated pigs on the structural diversity of microorganisms in bulk and rhizosphere soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2013;62:82-91.
13. Meyer A, Focks A, Radl V, Keil D, Welzl G, Schöning I, et al. Different Land Use Intensities in Grassland Ecosystems Drive Ecology of Microbial Communities Involved in Nitrogen Turnover in Soil. Plos One. 2013;8(9).
14. Focks A, Luttik R, Zorn M, Brock TCM, Roex E, Linden Tvd, et al. A simulation study on effects of exposure to a combination of pesticides used in an orchard and tuber crop on the recovery time of a vulnerable aquatic invertebrate. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 2014b;33(7):1489-98.
15. Jechalke S, Focks A, Rosendahl I, Groeneweg J, Siemens J, Heuer H, et al. Structural and functional response of the soil bacterial community to application of manure from difloxacin-treated pigs. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2014;87(1):78-88.
16. Focks A. The Challenge: Landscape ecotoxicology and spatially explicit risk assessment. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 2014a;33(6):1193.
17. Focks A. In summary. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 2014a;33(6):1198.
18. Grimm V, Augusiak J, Focks A, Frank BM, Gabsi F, Johnston ASA, et al. Towards better modelling and decision support: Documenting model development, testing, and analysis using TRACE. Ecological Modelling. 2014;280:129-39.
19. Focks A, ter Horst M, van den Berg E, Baveco H, van den Brink PJ. Integrating chemical fate and population-level effect models for pesticides at landscape scale: New options for risk assessment. Ecological Modelling. 2014c;280:102-16.
20. Diepens NJ, Arts GHP, Focks A, Koelmans AA. Uptake, translocation, and elimination in sediment-rooted macrophytes: A model-supported analysis of whole sediment test data. Environmental Science and Technology. 2014;48(20):12344-53.
21. Altenburger R, Ait-Aissa S, Antczak P, Backhaus T, Barceló D, Seiler TB, et al. Future water quality monitoring - Adapting tools to deal with mixtures of pollutants in water resource management. Science of the Total Environment. 2015;512-513:540-51.
22. Baveco JM, Focks A, Belgers D, van der Steen JJM, Boesten JJTI, Roessink I. An energetics-based honeybee nectar-foraging model used to assess the potential for landscape-level pesticide exposure dilution. PeerJ. 2016;2016(8).
23. Rico A, Van den Brink PJ, Gylstra R, Focks A, Brock TCM. Developing ecological scenarios for the prospective aquatic risk assessment of pesticides. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 2016;12(3):510-521.
24. Ashauer R, Albert C, Augustine S, Cedergreen N, Charles S, Ducrot V, Focks A, Gabsi F, Gergs A, Goussen B, Jager T, Kramer NI, Nyman AM, Poulsen V, Reichenberger S, Schäfer RB, Van den Brink PJ, Veltman K, Vogel S, Zimmer E & Preuss TG. Modelling survival: Exposure pattern, species sensitivity and uncertainty. Scientific Reports. 2016;6:29178 DOI: 10.1038/srep29178
25. Rico A, Van den Brink PJ, Leitner P, Graf W, Focks A. Relative influence of chemical and non-chemical stressors on invertebrate communities: a case study in the Danube River. Science of the Total Environment. 2016;571:1370-82.
26. Yakan SD, Focks A, Klasmeier J, Okay OS. Numerical evaluation of bioaccumulation and depuration kinetics of PAHs in Mytilus galloprovincialis. Environmental Pollution. 2017;220:1244-50.
27. Franco A, Price OR, Marshall S, Jolliet O, Van den Brink PJ, Rico A, Focks A, De Laender F, Ashauer R. Toward refined environmental scenarios for ecological risk assessment of down-the-drain chemicals in freshwater environments. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 2017:233–248
28. Ginebreda, A., Sabater-Liesa, L., Rico, A., Focks, A., Barceló, D. (2018) Reconciling monitoring and modeling: An appraisal of river monitoring networks based on a spatial autocorrelation approach - emerging pollutants in the Danube River as a case study. Science of the Total Environment 618, pp. 323-335
29. Focks A, Belgers D, Boerwinkel MC, Buijse L, Roessink I, Van den Brink PJ. Calibration and validation of toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic models for three neonicotinoids and some aquatic macroinvertebrates. Ecotoxicology, 2018, S. 1-16
30. Focks, A., Grisoni, F., Barsi, A., & Vighi, M. Predictive models in ecotoxicology: bridging the gap between scientific progress and regulatory applicability. Foreword. Integrated environmental assessment and management. 2018, accepted
31. EFSA PPR; Ockleford C, Adriaanse P, Berny P, Brock T, Duquesne S, Grilli S, Hernandez-Jerez AF, Bennekou SH, Klein M, Kuhl T, Laskowski R, Machera K, Pelkonen O, Pieper S, Smith RH, Stemmer M, Sundh I, Tiktak A, Topping CJ, Wolterink G, Cedergreen N, Charles, S, Focks A, Reed M, Arena M, Ippolito A, Byers H and Teodorovic I. 2018. Scientific Opinion on the state of the art of Toxicokinetic/Toxicodynamic (TKTD) effect models for regulatory risk assessment of pesticides for aquatic organisms. EFSA Journal 2018; 16(8):5377
32. Vighi, M., Barsi, A., Focks, A., Grisoni, F.Predictive models in ecotoxicology: Bridging the gap between scientific progress and regulatory applicability—Remarks and research needs (2019) Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 15 (3), pp. 345-351.
33. Burdon, F.J., Munz, N.A., Reyes, M., Focks, A., Joss, A., Räsänen, K., Altermatt, F., Eggen, R.I.L., Stamm, C. Agriculture versus wastewater pollution as drivers of macroinvertebrate community structure in streams (2019) Science of the Total Environment, 659, pp. 1256-1265.
34. Van Den Berg, S.J.P., Baveco, H., Butler, E., De Laender, F., Focks, A., Franco, A., Rendal, C., Van Den Brink, P.J.Modeling the Sensitivity of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates to Chemicals Using Traits (2019) Environmental Science and Technology, 53 (10), pp. 6025-6034.
35. Van den Brink, P.J., Buijert - de Gelder, D.M., Brock, T.C.M., Roessink, I., Focks, A. Exposure pattern-specific species sensitivity distributions for the ecological risk assessments of insecticides. (2019) Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 180, pp. 252-258
36. Brack, W., Ait-Aissa, S., Backhaus, T., Focks., A. (...), van Wezel, A., Altenburger, R.(2019) Strengthen the European collaborative environmental research to meet European policy goals for achieving a sustainable, non-toxic environment. Environmental Sciences Europe 31(1),63
37. Altenburger, R., Brack, W., Burgess, R.M., Busch, W., Escher, B.I., Focks, A., Mark Hewitt, L., Jacobsen, B.N., de Alda, M.L., Ait-Aissa, S., Backhaus, T., Ginebreda, A., Hilscherová, K., Hollender, J., Hollert, H., Neale, P.A., Schulze, T., Schymanski, E.L., Teodorovic, I., Tindall, A.J., de Aragão Umbuzeiro, G., Vrana, B., Zonja, B., Krauss, M. Future water quality monitoring: improving the balance between exposure and toxicity assessments of real-world pollutant mixtures (2019) Environmental Sciences Europe, 31 (1).
38. Brack, W., Ait-Aissa, S., Altenburger, R., Cousins, I., Dulio, V., Escher, B., Focks, A., Ginebreda, A., Hering, D., Hilscherová, K., Hollender, J., Hollert, H., Kortenkamp, A., de Alda, M.L., Posthuma, L., Schymanski, E., Segner, H., Slobodnik, Let us empower the WFD to prevent risks of chemical pollution in European rivers and lakes (2019) Environmental Sciences Europe, 31 (1).
39. Backhaus, T., Brack, W., Van den Brink, P. J., Deutschmann, B., Hollert, H., Posthuma, L., . . . Focks, A. (2019). Assessing the ecological impact of chemical pollution on aquatic ecosystems requires the systematic exploration and evaluation of four lines of evidence. Environmental Sciences Europe, 31(1)
40. Posthuma, L., Altenburger, R., Backhaus, T., Kortenkamp, A., Müller, C., Focks, A., [..] Brack, W. (2019). Improved component-based methods for mixture risk assessment are key to characterize complex chemical pollution in surface waters. Environmental Sciences Europe, 31(1)
41. Posthuma, L., Brack, W., van Gils, J., Focks, A., Müller, C., de Zwart, D., & Birk, S. (2019). Mixtures of chemicals are important drivers of impacts on ecological status in european surface waters. Environmental Sciences Europe, 31(1)
42. Forbes, V.E., Agatz, A., Ashauer, R., Focks, A., (...), Zorn, M.I., Roeben, V. (2020) Mechanistic Effect Modeling of Earthworms in the Context of Pesticide Risk Assessment: Synthesis of the FORESEE Workshop. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. In press.
43. van Gestel, C.A.M., Mommer, L., Montanarella, L., (...), Focks, A., Römbke, J. (2020) Soil Biodiversity: State-of-the-Art and Possible Implementation in Chemical Risk Assessment. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. In press.
44. Sun, M., Duker, R. Q., Gillissen, F., Van den Brink, P. J., Focks, A., & Rico, A. (2020). Influence of pH on the toxicity of ionisable pharmaceuticals and personal care products to freshwater invertebrates. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 191
45. Dalhoff K., Hansen AMB., Rasmussen JJ, Focks A., Strobel BW, Cedergreen N.(2020). Linking Morphology, Toxicokinetic, and Toxicodynamic Traits of Aquatic Invertebrates to Pyrethroid Sensitivity. Environmental Science & Technology 2020 54 (9), 5687-5699
46. Van den Berg, S.J.P., Rendal, C., Focks, A., (...), De Laender, F., Van den Brink, P.J.(2020) Potential impact of chemical stress on freshwater invertebrates: A sensitivity assessment on continental and national scale based on distribution patterns, biological traits, and relatedness. Science of the Total Environment 731,139150
47. Van Gils, Posthuma L, Cousins IT, Brack W, Altenburger R, Baveco H, Focks A, Greskowiak J, Kühne R, Kutsarova S,  Lindim C, Markus A, Van de Meent D, Munthe J, Schueder R, Schüürmann G, Slobodnik J, De Zwart D, Van Wezel A (2020). Computational material flow analysis for thousands of chemicals of emerging concern in European waters, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 397, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122655.
48. Arlos M., Focks A., Hollender J., Stamm C. (2020) Improving risk assessment by predicting the survival of field gammarids exposed to dynamic pesticide mixtures. Environmental Science and Technology 54(19), pp. 12383-12392
49. Posthuma L., Zijp MC., De Zwart D., Van de Meent D., Globovnik L., Koprivsek M., Focks A., Van Gils J., Birk S. (2020). Chemical pollution imposes limitations to the ecological status of European surface waters. Scientific Reports, 10(1),14825.
50. Brock T., Arena  M., Cedergreen  N., Charles S., Duquesne  S., Ippolito A., Klein  M., Reed  M., Teodorovic  I., Van den Brink  PJ., Focks A. (2021) Application of GUTS models for regulatory aquatic pesticide risk assessment illustrated with an example for the insecticide chlorpyrifos, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 17(1), pp. 243-258 https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4327
51. Arlos, M.J., Focks, A., Hollender, J., Stamm, C.(2021) Correction to Improving Risk Assessment by Predicting the Survival of Field Gammarids Exposed to Dynamic Pesticide Mixtures (Environ. Sci. Technol. (2020) 54:19 (12383−12392). Environmental Science and Technology, in press.
52. Ayllón, D., Railsback, S.F., Gallagher, C.,  Focks., A., (...), Thorbek, P., Grimm, V. (2021) Keeping modelling notebooks with TRACE: Good for you and good for environmental research and management support. Environmental Modelling and Software 136,104932