Environmental Toxicology is the study of how chemicals move within the environment and affect biological systems.
Within the concept of risk assessment, the environmental toxicology research groups at the Biology Department (NTNU) study the health effects on biological systems and humans after exposure to environmental contaminants. In a broad sense, risk assessment involves the identification of potential hazards and synthesis of diverse data to determine the plausibility and magnitude of risks posed by environmental agents. Major elements of our research activities are centered on measuring potential and real exposure to environmental toxicants, and measuring the effect or time- and dose-response to toxicants both in the laboratory and in the field using integrated and modern analytical techniques that include proteomics, genomics, physiological, biochemical and analytical chemistry. These techniques are also applied to whole organism ( in vivo ), in cell cultures ( in vitro ) and in real-life situations (in the field).
Career Opportunities
Because of flexibility and diversity of courses and training we offer, graduated students can enter into a variety of fields, including, such as furthering their studies in medicine, law, aquatic and terrestrial sciences, chemistry and pharmacology or getting employment in government agencies, academia, private and/or industrial sectors.
