This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Anne Kahru on maailma üks enimtsiteeritud teadlasi keskkonnateaduste ja ökoloogia alal. Ta on ökotoksikoloogia uurimissuuna rajaja Eestis, Eesti Toksikoloogia Seltsi asutajaliige ja juhatuse esimees.

Aastast 2005 juhib ta Keskkonnatoksikoloogia Laboratooriumi uurimistöid Keemilise ja Bioloogilise Füüsika Instituudis. Kümmekond aastat tagasi alustas Anne töörühm maailmas esimeste seas nanomõõdus metallioksiidide ökotoksikoloogiliste uuringutega.

Anne on ka esimene Eesti teadlane, kellega ülemaailmne teadusreitinguagentuur Thomson Reuters on intervjuu teinud – põhjuseks tema töörühma teadusmaailmas palju tähelepanu pälvinud nanoosakeste ökotoksilist mõju käsitlev artikkel ajakirjas ‘Chemosphere’. Ta on ligi 80 teadusartikli autor ning tema juhendamisel on kaitstud kuus doktoritööd.

2011. aastal pälvis ta Eesti riigi teaduspreemia geo- ja bioteaduste alal uurimuste tsükli “Sünteetiliste nanoosakeste ökotoksikoloogia ja toksilisuse mehhanismid” eest.

Anne Kahru is one of the most cited scientists worldwide in the fields of environment and ecology. She is on the frontier of ecotoxicological research in Estonia, founder and chair of the board of the Estonian Society of Toxicology.

Since 2005 she has been the head of the Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics in Tallinn.

Several decades ago, Anne started one of the first working groups in the world for ecotoxicological researching of nano-sized metal oxide.

Anne was also the first Estonian scientist interviewed by Thomson Reuters’ ScienceWatch regarding the article by her working group in the magazine ‘Chemosphere’ about the ecotoxical effect of nano particles.

She is the author of more than 80 research papers and has supervised six PhD theses.

In 2011, she received Estonia’s National Science Award for her research on “Ecotoxicology and mechanisms of toxicity of synthetic nanoparticles”.

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