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

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5532
Email
i.lynch@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Iseult Lynch is an environmental chemist working at the interface of chemical (and materials) pollution and environmental policy.  She is the Director for Research of the 黑料吃瓜网’s Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ), an affiliate of the Birmingham Institute of Sustainability and Climate Action, Chair of DEFRA’s Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (HSAC) advising the UK government on all aspect of chemicals in the environment, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistryand an Editorial Board member of Environmental Science: Nano.

Iseult has a very broad overview of all aspects of nanomaterials and chemical safety assessment and plays a leading role in making toxicology research data and models Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR).  She co-leads the workpackage on FAIR Research data for the EU Horizon Europe funded Partnership for Assessment of the Risks of Chemicals (PARC) and is the Chemical Lead for nanomaterials.

Iseult’s research focuses on the environmental interactions of nanoparticles and nanostructured surfaces with biological entities from macromolecules to organisms, and the interactions of nanoscale materials with other co-pollutants as part of mixture toxicity.  She collaborates with a wide range of colleagues internationally, to develop predictive modes of nanomaterials toxicity, to develop safe and sustainable by design materials and chemicals, and to apply nanoscale and advanced materials in a range of applications to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including for precision agriculture, for water purification and for clean energy.

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