Dr. R. Saunders
Health Protection Agency, UK

Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders graduated from the School of Biological Sciences at Birmingham University in 1969 and received a PhD in Zoology and Comparative Physiology in 1973. He then worked briefly at the Institute of Human Physiology, Milan University, Italy, and at the Neurocommunications Research Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. In 1975 he joined the National Radiological Protection Board. He now heads the Non-Ionising Radiation Effects Group at the Radiation Protection Division of the United Kingdom Health Protection Agency. His main research interests are in the biological effects of EMFs and, more recently, in the biological effects of ultraviolet radiation. In 2004, he spent a sabbatical year working for the WHO EMF Project in Geneva, Switzerland, and has been a member of several WHO EMF Environmental Health Criteria Task Groups. He has been a member of a number of national and international EMF advisory groups and has served ICNIRP SCII since 1998 and the ICNIRP Commission since October 2006.

Dr. R. Croft
University of Wollongong, Australia

rcroft@uow.edu.au

Rodney Croft graduated from Wollongong University, Australia, with a Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy) degree in 1994, a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) degree in 1995, and a PhD in Psychology in 2000. He then worked as a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College, London, before heading back to Australia and continuing his research at Wollongong University and then Swinburne University of Technology. He is currently Professor of Health Psychology at University of Wollongong. Croft is Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects, a government-funded research and communication group, and is a member of the EME Reference Group (Australia), and ICES TC3 and TC4. Croft’s research encompasses many aspects of the EMF health domain, with the primary focus being on RF emissions and human neural function.

Dr. J. Juutilainen
University of Kuopio,
Finland


jukka.juutilainen@uku.fi

Jukka Juutilainen is a Professor of Radiation Biology and Radiation Epidemiology at the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Kuopio, Finland. He has worked as an Associate Editor for Electro- and Magnetobiology in 1993-1997 and for Bioelectromagnetics in 1998-2001. His research and teaching cover adverse health effects and risk assessment of radiation (both non-ionizing and ionizing). His team conducts multidisciplinary research using all approaches from epidemiology and exposure assessment to cell and molecular biology. The main research areas have been assessment of possible developmental and carcinogenic effects of low frequency and RF electromagnetic fields, and combined effects with known carcinogenic/genotoxic factors such as UV or ionizing radiation.

Dr. I. Lagroye
IMS Laboratory
Bordeaux University
France

isabelle.lagroye@ims-bordeaux.fr

Isabelle Lagroye, PharmD and PhD in Life Sciences, graduated from the Bordeaux II University, France, in 1997. After a post-doctoral position at the Radiation Oncology Center in Dr Roti-Roti's laboratory (Saint-Louis, MO, USA), she has carried out research work at the Bioelectromagnetics group of the IMS laboratory, University of Bordeaux I since 1999. She is also an Associate Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), France. Her research deals mainly with the toxicological effects of non-invasive electromagnetic fields, investigating genotoxicity, apoptosis, and protein expression in rat brain and cell cultures exposed to mobile telephone signals. She is an ICNIRP member since March 2009.

Dr. J. Miyakoshi
Kyoto University,
Japan


miyakoshi@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Junji Miyakoshi graduated from the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University and received a PhD (Anatomy) in 1982. He has worked as an Associate Professor of Radiation Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, in 1996-2002. From 2002 until 2010 he was Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Hirosaki University, Japan. Since 2010 he is Professor at the Research Institute for Sustainable Development at the Kyoto University. His main interest is in the molecular and cellular biological effects of static, ELF and RF electromagnetic fields and/or ionizing radiation. He has written over 100 papers in peer reviewed journals. He was a Working Group Member of IARC for the risk assessment of ELF electromagnetic fields in 2002, and was a Task Group Member of WHO for the ELF Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) in 2005. He also worked as a Board Member of the Bioelectromagnetic Society in 2003-2005. He has been serving ICNIRP SCII since November 2006.

Dr. E. Van Rongen
Health Council of
the Netherlands

e.van.rongen@gr.nl

Eric van Rongen (1955) studied biology at the State University of Leyden, the Netherlands. After graduating in 1980 he performed research at the Radiobiological Institute of the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research on tumour and normal tissue radiobiology. In 1989 he received his PhD on a dissertation concerning the effects of fractionated radiotherapy on normal tissues. From 1989 – 1990 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Experimental Radiotherapy at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, TX, USA. Since 1992 he is scientific staff member with the Health Council of the Netherlands and primarily involved with non-ionizing radiation. As Scientific Secretary of several Expert Committees he has written many advisory reports on the health effects of low and high frequency electromagnetic fields, UV and ionizing radiation, but also on non-radiation subjects such as xenotransplantation and brain damage in boxers and soccer players. He is member of the International Advisory Committee of the WHO International EMF Project and has been part-time seconded to WHO to work on the Environmental Health Criteria on Static Fields and EMF. He is member of several national and international organizations in the field of non-ionizing radiation. He is member of the Council of EBEA and representative of the Netherlands with COST BM0704. He has been Consulting Member of ICNIRP since May 2001 and has been serving as a member of ICNIRP SCII since November 2006.

Dr. L. Verschaeve
Scientific Institute of Public Health, Belgium

Luc.Verschaeve@iph.fgov.be

Luc Verschaeve received his PhD in Biology in March 1984 from the University at Brussels, Belgium. He is now at the "Scientific Institute of Public Health" where he is responsible for the Toxicology laboratory. He is also professor at the biomedical department of the University of Antwerp. He is president of the working group on non ionizing radiation of the Belgian Health Council and member of the college, as well as member of the reflexion group on Radiation and Health of the Dutch Health council. He has been serving ICNIRP SCII since May 2000.

Dr. Z. Xu
Zhejiang University
School of Medicine
Hangzhou, China

zpxu@zju.edu.cn

Zhengping Xu received his PhD in Biology in 1997 from the University at Zhejiang and the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After a 3 year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, he is now since 2001 teaching at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine. He has been serving ICNIRP SCII since 2005.