East Asia Monitor
UNU
e-Newsletter
Issue 11. October 2004
Open Seminar with Dr. Heidelore Fiedler of UNEP Chemicals
Date: October
8th (Friday), 2004
Time: 15:00 - 17:00
Place: UN House, 12th floor meeting room
5-53-70 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8925, Japan
15:00 -15:10 Get together (with drinks)
15:10 -15:15 Opening remarks and introduction by Mr. Luohui Liang (UNU)
15:15 -16:15 Dr. Heidelore Fiedler (UNEP Chemicals): Capacity Building Program
16:15 -16:35 Dr. Eric Williams (UNU): Computers and the Environment
16:35 -16:55 Ms. Kumiko Tsukamoto (UNU): Coastal Hydrosphere Project in South East Asia
16:55 -17:00 Closing by Dr. Fukuya Iino (UNU)
Dr. Heidelore Fiedler
UNEP Chemicals, Scientific Affairs Officer
Editor of the section 'Persistent Organic Pollutants and Dioxins' of 'Chemosphere'
International Advisory Board Member of the International Dioxin Symposia
Curriculum Vitae (short)
From 1985 until 1996 she held the position of a senior research scientist at the Department of Ecological Chemistry and Geochemistry of the University of Bayreuth working with Professor Otto Hutzinger. From 1996 to 1998 she worked at the Bavarian Institute for Waste Research in Augsburg, Germany.
In October 1998, Dr. Fiedler moved to UNEP Chemicals in Geneva, Switzerland, working with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) where, as a Scientific Affairs Officer, she is responsible for the dioxin and furan capacity building program of UNEP.
Her main expertise is the field of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and especially polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans, from formation mechanisms, source identification, reduction technologies, and release inventories to exposure and risk assessments.
Dr. Heidelore Fiedler has served on the ESPR-Editorial Board from the beginning, i.e. since 1994. On 29 September 2003 she joined the board of co-editors. She is responsible for international policy and (organic) pollutants and for the cooperation with other intergovernmental organizations.
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