Michelle Bloor

Michelle is an ecotoxicologist in the arena of chemicals, waste and pollution. She has two undergraduate degrees: BEd (Hons) Science in the Environment (University of Oxford) and BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science (Manchester Metropolitan University), and a PhD in Environmental Engineering (University of Southampton). Over the past 23 years as a government scientist and academic, Michelle has been involved in a plethora of assessments, policy developments, research projects, and other activities related to addressing the sound management of chemicals, waste and pollution, while being employed at the: University of Southampton (2001-2005), Fisheries Research Service (2005-2008), which is an agency of the Scottish Government, University of Portsmouth (2008-2020), Scottish Government Marine Scotland Science (2020-2021), Scotland’s Rural University College (2020-2021), and the University of Glasgow (2021-ongoing) where she is currently employed as an Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Risk. She is a member of the Technical Advisory Group to the United Nations Environmental Programme’s Executive Director, Sherpa to the European Commission’s High-Level Round Table for the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, European Commission expert on chemicals, waste and pollution to support the coordination of and synergies between the Green Deal call projects. PIANOFORTE partnership’s Advisory Board member, and UK Government Chemicals Stakeholder Forum member. Michelle is also a Senior Editor for the Sustainable Environment journal (Francis and Taylor), Review Editor for Frontiers in Marine Science - Marine Pollution, Editor for the book series Issues on Environmental Science and Technology (Royal Society of Chemistry) and UK Science Media Centre expert on chemicals, waste and pollution. Michelle is the Immediate Past President of SETAC Europe (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry), (2022-2023) having served as the President (2021-2022) and Vice President (2020-2021). For the past two years, she has also served as a member of the SETAC World Council (and in both 2021 and 2022 received Presidential Citations from the outgoing SETAC World Presidents for her contribution to SETAC and science), and since 2014, she has been an active member of the SETAC UK Branch governance. Michelle is Chair of the SETAC Advisory Panel on Chemicals Management (CheM) and is SETAC’s Representative for engagement with UNEP’s Open Ended Working Group Science-Policy Panel for the Sound Management of Chemicals, Waste and Pollution Prevention (as SETAC is accredited to the UNEP Scientific and Technical Community Major Group) , she is a member of SETAC Europe’s High Level Round Table Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Sounding Board and SETAC Europe’s ESFA Stakeholder Bureau Sounding Board. Research interest: Aquatic and soil ecotoxicology Pollution control and mitigation Bioremediation Chemical, waste and pollution policy Sustainability   Science communication Science policy interface Stakeholder engagement and analysis Waste management