Andreas Hensel (veterinarian)

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Andreas Hensel (born January 13, 1961 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German veterinarian , microbiologist and hygienist . As a professor at the University of Leipzig , he was appointed President of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) founded the year before in 2003 . Since then, Hensel has also been the German representative on the Scientific Advisory Forum of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

Life

Hensel attended the municipal community elementary school in Dammstrasse from 1966 to 1969 and then until 1979 the municipal high school in Dülken . 1979–1986 he studied veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover , where he also completed postgraduate studies in microbiology . From 1987 to 1990 he was a research assistant there and in 1988 he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on the kinetics of inhaled bacteria. med. vet. PhD. From 1991 to 1994 Hensel also worked at the University of Utrecht , where he received his Ph.D. acquired. In 1994 Hensel became a university lecturer at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna , and from 1994 to 1997 he worked as a senior scientist in the Center for Molecular Biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Vienna . 1995–1997 he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 1997 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Bacteriology, Mycology and Hygiene at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, and completed his habilitation at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover in the field of microbiology. In the same year, Hensel moved to the veterinary medicine faculty of the University of Leipzig , where he first represented the C4 professorship for animal hygiene. From 1998 to 2003 he was full professor for Animal Hygiene and Animal Disease Control as well as the Director of the Institute for Animal Hygiene and Public Veterinary Services.

Since 2003, Hensel has headed the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), headquartered in Berlin, as President . In 2004, Hensel was appointed honorary professor for consumer health protection and risk assessment at the University of Leipzig . The Free University of Berlin appointed him honorary professor for food hygiene in 2013.

criticism

In 2017, the Association of the Munich Environmental Institute saw the BfR's approach during the risk assessment of glyphosate as a "plagiarism" and thus a violation of the guidelines of the EU Commission for the preparation of assessment reports. The association filed a complaint against Hensel as head of the BfR and demanded his dismissal. The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture rejected the complaint due to lack of evidence of a breach of duty. Hensel had previously stated that the allegations of plagiarism are based on “ignorance of the national and international legal procedures” and would discredit science.

Memberships

Andreas Hensel is a member of numerous scientific advisory boards and societies, including a. the scientific advisory board of the Julius Kühn Institute - Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants (JKI), the scientific advisory board of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the German Veterinary Medical Society (DVG), the Board of Trustees for Technology and Construction in Agriculture (KTBL) and the German-speaking Mycological Society (DMykG).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presidium - BfR
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Andreas Hensel . In: Faculty review 9th year 1999, Issue 10, p. 30.
  3. ↑ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): End of glyphosate in the EU? | Knowledge & Environment | DW | October 19, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  4. ^ Supervision complaint Bfr . In: Environmental Institute Munich . ( Umweltinstitut.org [PDF; accessed on February 6, 2018]).
  5. ^ Reply from the BMEL website of the Environmental Institute, Munich eV (accessed on February 22, 2018).
  6. ^ Federal Institute for Risk Assessment: Baseless allegations against scientific assessment authorities . Report on bfr.bund.de from October 5, 2017, accessed on February 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hensel, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian, microbiologist and hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach