Jana Klánová is a professor of environmental chemistry at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and a director of the RECETOX Centre of MU. Her research interests are in the area of environmental fate of toxic compounds, their transport and transformation processes, human exposure pathways, and environmental determinants of health. Jana is a lead of the GEO Initiative GOS4POPs (Global Observation System for Persistent Organic Pollutants), a member of the Expert Group supervising implementation of the Global Monitoring Plan under the Stockholm Convention, and of the ESFRI Strategic Working Group on Environment. She has co-authored more than 180 papers in the international peer-reviewed journals.
Scientist: Jana Klánová
Changing environment, changing health
Our environment and health are closely intertwined, and we must equip future generations with adaptive capacities to achieve sustainable human wellbeing on all fronts. One such environment is our chemical one. It is present in the products we use, the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. Human biomonitoring is ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Prof. Jana Klánová about Human Biomonitoring
Human Biomonitoring, a scientist’s opinion Interview with Prof. Jana Klánová, professor of environmental chemistry at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and a director of the RECETOX Centre of MU. Establishing exposure-health relationships seems like an enormous task. How are the teams actually going about this? Jana Klánová: This is not a task to be ...
