Professor Iseult Lynch PhD, MBA

Professor Iseult Lynch

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor of Environmental Nanosciences
Theme lead for Environmental Sciences
Director of Research for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)

Contact details

Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Iseult Lynch is an Associate Editor for Environmental Science: Nano, and Deputy director for the Facility for Environmental Nanomaterials Analysis and Characterisation (FENAC) at the University 麻豆精选.  Her research focuses on the environmental interactions of nanoparticles and nanostructured surfaces with biological entities from macromolecules to organisms.

She has a very broad overview of all aspects of nanomaterials safety assessment and the data requirements, having served as Chair of the EU Nanosafety Cluster Working Group (NSC WG) on databases for two years (and as co-Chair of the Hazed WG prior to that), as well as being theme editor for the Materials and classification section of the NSC Vision2020 research roadmap (under review for publication in June 2013). Prior to the University 麻豆精选 she was Strategic Research Manager at the Centre for BioNano Interactions in University College Dublin, where she was instrumental in the development and implementation of numerous large EU-funded projects.

Iseult is part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics.  This unique team brings together chemists, environmental scientists, philosophers, linguists, economists, and experts in many other fields, to holistically address the global plastics problem.

Qualifications

BSc. (Hons) Chemistry (1995)

PhD (Chemistry, 2000)

MBA (2012)

Teaching

Professor Lynch is the undergraduate admissions tutor for Environmental Science.

Leads and contributes to undergraduate modules on the following topics:

  • molecules and materials
  • environmental protection
  • environmental pollution

Deputy director of the MRes in Biological and Environmental Nanoscience, and module leader for the MRes module 'Biological and Environmental Nanoscience'.

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Lynch鈥檚 research interests include:

Synthesis of novel materials for environmental applications - remediation, agriculture, solar desalination and more.
Nanoparticle interactions with biomolecules in the environment (natural organic matter, secreted proteins, organic pollutants, etc.) - the 鈥渆co-corona鈥 and secondary pollutant effects
Determination of the fate and behavior of nanomaterials in the environment
Development of high throughput screening applications: nano(eco)toxicology, bionanointeractions and assessment of environmental fate of nanomaterials.
Nanoinformatics approaches for safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials.
FAIR data and data management workflows and tools. Ontology and metadata schema.

Research

Understanding the role of the bio-nano interface, and interactions with biomolecules, in determining nanoparticle fate and behaviour in the environment and for human health.

FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) data and approaches and tools to suppport FAIR data

Interactions between pollution, hydrology and climate change

Other activities

  • Associate Editor for Environmental Science: Nano
  • Editorial Board member for the online journal Particle & Fibre Toxicology.
  • Partner in Horizon 2020 projects NanoFASE, NanoGenTools and EC4SafeNano.
  • Steering Committee member for Work Group 7 (dissemination) in the
  • Editor / Theme Leader for the NanoSafety Cluster Vision 2020 strategic research document, leading the sections on nanomaterials identity and infrastructure needs for nanosafety.
  • Member of Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) Expert Panel on nanotechnologies in food, resulting in the report: , October 2008.
  • Member of European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Working Group on Nano in Food (2008-2009), resulting in the publication: .

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Micucci, G, Lewicka-Szczebak, D, Sgouridis, F, Well, R, Buchen-Tschiskale, C, McNamara, NP, Krause, S, Lynch, I, Roos, F & Ullah, S 2025, '', Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, vol. 39, no. 6, e9971.

Zouraris, D, Mavrogiorgis, A, Tsoumanis, A, Saarim盲ki, LA, del Giudice, G, Federico, A, Serra, A, Greco, D, Rouse, I, Subbotina, J, Lobaskin, V, Jagiello, K, Ciura, K, Judzinska, B, Mikolajczyk, A, Sosnowska, A, Puzyn, T, Gulumian, M, Wepener, V, Martinez, DST, Petry, R, El Yamani, N, Rund茅n-Pran, E, Murugadoss, S, Shaposhnikov, S, Minadakis, V, Tsiros, P, Sarimveis, H, Longhin, EM, SenGupta, T, Olsen, AKH, Skakalova, V, Hutar, P, Dusinska, M, Papadiamantis, AG, Gheorghe, LC, Reilly, K, Brun, E, Ullah, S, Cambier, S, Serchi, T, T盲mm, K, Lorusso, C, Dondero, F, Melagrakis, E, Fraz, MM, Melagraki, G, Lynch, I & Afantitis, A 2025, '', Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, vol. 29, pp. 13-28.

Wang, X, Wu, K, Ning, P, Guo, Z, Zhang, P, Wu, L & Lynch, I 2025, '', Journal of Water Process Engineering, vol. 72, 107438.

Jiang, M, Wang, X, Han, R, Ning, P, Lynch, I & Ma, J 2025, '', Separation and Purification Technology, vol. 354, no. Part 2, 128675.

Chakraborty, S, Dhumal, P, Guo, Z, Gifford, ML & Lynch, I 2025, '', Matter, vol. 8, 102095.

Exner, TE, Dokler, J, Friedrichs, S, Seitz, C, Bleken, FL, Friis, J, Hagelien, TF, Mercuri, F, Costa, AL, Furxhi, I, Sarimveis, H, Afantitis, A, Marvuglia, A, Larrea-Gallegos, GM, Serchi, T, Serra, A, Greco, D, Nymark, P, Himly, M, Wiench, K, Watzek, N, Schillinger, E-K, Gavillet, J, Lynch, I, Karwath, A, Haywood, AL, Gkoutos, GV & Hischier, R 2025, '', Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, vol. 29, pp. 110-124.

Serra, A, Zouraris, D, Schaffert, A, Torres Maia, M, Tsiros, P, Virmani, I, Di Lieto, E, Saarim盲ki, LA, Morikka, J, Riudavets-Puig, R, Varsou, D-D, Papavasileiou, KD, Kolokathis, PD, Mintis, DG, Tzoupis, H, Tsoumanis, A, Melagraki, G, Arvanitidis, A, Doganis, P, Minadakis, V, Savvas, G, Perello-Y-Bestard, A, Cucurachi, S, Buljan, M, Nikiforou, F, Karakoltzidis, A, Karakitsios, S, Sarigiannis, DA, Friedrichs, S, Seitz, C, Gutierrez, TN, Isigonis, P, Cambier, S, Marvuglia, A, Lindner, GG, Sergent, J-A, Gheorghe, LC, Bradford, L-JA, Park, S-G, Ha, SM, Gerelkhuu, Z, Yoon, TH, Petry, R, Martinez, DST, Winkler, DA, Wick, P, Exner, TE, Dondero, F, Serchi, T, Peijnenburg, W, Sarimveis, H, Paparella, M, Lynch, I, Afantitis, A & Greco, D 2025, '', Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, vol. 29, pp. 125-137.

Punz, B, Brajnik, M, Dokler, J, Amos, JD, Johnson, L, Reilly, K, Papadiamantis, AG, Etxabe, AG, Walker, L, Martinez, DST, Friedrichs, S, Weltring, KM, G眉nday-T眉reli, N, Svendsen, C, Hendren, CO, Wiesner, MR, Himly, M, Lynch, I & Exner, TE 2025, '', Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, vol. 16, pp. 57鈥77. ,

Wang, X, Wang, J, Wu, X, Ning, P & Lynch, I 2025, '', Environmental Research, vol. 277, 121575.

Subbotina, J, Kolokathis, PD, Tsoumanis, A, Sidiropoulos, NK, Rouse, I, Lynch, I, Lobaskin, V & Afantitis, A 2025, '', Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 3142鈥3153.

Friedrichs, S, Seitz, C, Bleeker, E, Vandebriel, R, Ouhajji, S, Duistermaat, E, Wiemann, M, Vennemann, A, Katsumiti, A, Buerki-Thurnherr, T, Gupta, G, Wick, P, Ortiz-Galvez, LM, Wu, J, Weltring, K-M, Haase, D, Heunisch, E, Pohl, A, Reilly, K, Guo, Z, Lynch, I, Exner, T, Hagenhoff, B & Breitenstein, D 2025, '', Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, vol. 29, pp. 95-109.

Han, R, Wang, X, Jiang, M, Lynch, I, Ma, J & Ning, P 2025, '', Separation and Purification Technology, vol. 356, 129844.

Tsiros, P, Chimarios, N, Zouraris, D, Tsoumanis, A, Sarimveis, H, Melagraki, G, Lynch, I & Afantitis, A 2025, '', RSC Sustainability.

Comment/debate

Chakraborty, S, Menon, D, Mikulska, I, Pfrang, C, Fairen-Jimenez, D, Misra, SK & Lynch, I 2025, '', Nature Reviews Materials.

Letter

Chakraborty, S, Drexel, R, Bhadane, P, Langford, N, Dhumal, P, Meier, F & Lynch, I 2025, '', Nanoscale, vol. 17, no. 15, pp. 9122-9136. ,

Expertise

Nanomaterials in the environment (as well as food, cosmetics, consumer products, nanomedicines, nanopesticides etc.); nanomaterials transformations; nanomaterials fate and behaviour; nanomaterials eco/toxicology; Nanosafety assessment; nanoregulation; nanogovernance; Microplastics; nanoplastics; Open data