Emma Kasteel (PhD, ERT) is a postdoctoral researcher and project manager at IRAS. She completed her PhD in 2021 on Next Generation Risk Assessment of Chemicals, looking into alternative (in vitro/in silico) approaches for toxicity testing.

In the MOMENTUM project, she is project manager and postdoctoral researcher. She specificially adresses if micro- and nanoplastics are able to cross the blood-brain barrier and dives into the possible neurotoxic effects of micro- and nanoplastics (WP3 & WP4).

Contact information

E-mail:
e.kasteel@uu.nl

Adress for correspondence:
Nieuw Gildestein, room 240
Yalelaan 2
3584 CM Utrecht
The Netherlands