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Meet the P&G people who are working behind Science-in-the-box |
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Editorial Board |
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Erwan Saouter, PhD
Erwan Saouter holds a PhD thesis from the University of Bordeaux, France, on the ecotoxicology of mercury compounds (speciation, bioaccumulation).
From 1991 to 1993, research associate at the US Environmental Protection Agency (Gulf-Breeze), where he worked on mercury bioremediation projects (Oak-Ridge, Everglades, etc). In 1994, he joined the European Technical Centre of the Procter & Gamble Company in Brussels in the environmental science department to work on risk assessment of detergent chemicals. In 1998 he joined the corporate science department to lead the life cycle assessment group.
Erwan is now in charge of External Relations, P&G Western European Headquarter, Geneva since 2001, working on scientific communication. He is the project leader for this website: Science-in-the-box.
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Giuseppe Fontanari
Giuseppe Antonio (Pinolo) Fontanari graduated in Chemical Engineering from the Politecnico of Milano with a thesis on the use of Ultrasounds in measuring the levels of Mercury in the Mercury cells for the production of Cl/NaOH. After a 2 year period spent at Fairchild Semiconductors in Mountain View (Ca - USA), in 1973 he joined Procter & Gamble in Rome. He spent close to 18 years in Product Development covering most of the P&G product categories (detergents, cleaners, diapers, cosmetics, coffee, etc.), but with a marked predominance of the first two areas, spending several years at the P&G Technical Centers in Newcastle (UK) and Brussels (Belgium). In 1992, he moved into PS&RA (Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs) and more recently into External Relations. He is currently responsible for External Relations for the Fabric Care business in Western Europe and CEEMEA (Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa). He is also heavily involved in the work of the Detergents Industry associations both in Italy (Assocasa - Federchimica) and at European level (A.I.S.E. - International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance Products) in Brussels.
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Patrick H. Masscheleyn, Ph.D
is currently Associate Director, Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs, Global Fabric and Home Care with The Procter & Gamble Company. In this function, he is responsible to ensure regulatory compliance and to provide science-based product and ingredient safety assessments as an integral part of technology and product development. Patrick is currently located at the European Technical Center, Brussels, Belgium. He started his career at Procter & Gamble as Environmental Scientist in December 1992. During his career at Procter & Gamble, Patrick assumed a Section Head role in Procter & Gamble's Corporate Environmental Science Department and spent two years in Cincinnati, Ohio (P&G's global headquarters). Prior to joining Procter & Gamble, Patrick was Assistant Professor at the Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, and at the Laboratory for Applied Theoretical and Physical Chemistry, University of Ghent, Belgium. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the Louisiana State University, School of the Coast and Environment, Wetland Biogeochemistry Institute and holds Engineering degrees in Agricultural Chemistry and Environmental Sanitation from the University of Ghent, Belgium.
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Special copy writers
Research & Development
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Linda Blereau
Linda Blereau holds a degree of industrial engineer Biochemistry (Belgium). She joined P&G in 1988 to work in Research & Development Product Research on several laundry projects (powders, liquids, tablets and liquitabs) and new business development (Febreze, upstream initiative with US).
Late 2002, Linda moved to External Relations Western Europe, located in The European Technical Center in Brussels, working closely with the local organizations on external communication.
She is one of the webmasters of this website taking responsibility for the information offered to you.
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Sabine Metzger-Groom, PhD
Sabine Metzger-Groom received a M.Sc. in Physics from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 1991, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1996.
After graduation, Sabine joined the Procter & Gamble Newcastle Technical Centre in England. For two years, she worked in Automated Dishwashing, developing the Fairy Tab-in-Tab. In 1998 she moved into the Technology Council of Europe, doing upstream qualitative consumer research. In 2001, she joined the Global Strategic Alliances Team in Newcastle, an organisation with a strong external and global focus.
In September 2003, she moved into the Fabric & Home Care Innovation Team at the Technical Centre in Brussels to further build P&G's consumer understanding capability.
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Michael Duncam
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Michael Duncan holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield on the Laser Diagnostics of Low Pressure Electrical Discharge Plasmas". In 1991, he joined Procter & Gamble Technical Centre in Newcastle as a Technical Brand Manager working on Ariel Color. In 1994, he joined a global product design/research team within Products Research. Michael moved to Paris in 1997 working on the Southern European Business before transferring to Brussels in 1998 to lead a team defining formulation, process, consumer research and marketing programs. Michael is now the R&D Associate Director of the Global Strategic Alliance team in Newcastle, building alliance relationships with external strategic partners.
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Product Information
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Wouter Coox
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Luka Sohail, PhD
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Elif Ekemen, PhD
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Philippe Peltre, PhD
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Claudine Baron
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Environmental
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Don Versteeg, PhD
Don Versteeg joined The Procter & Gamble Company in 1985 after receiving his Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from Michigan State University.
He is currently a Principal Scientist in the Environmental Sciences Department where his research has focused on the effects and risks of surfactants and other consumer product ingredients in the aquatic and terrestrial environments. Don's current research interests include the development of a rapid, genomics based in vitro screen for a variety of mechanisms of action of environmental chemicals.
Don has been active in the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry as a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary Treasurer and he currently serves as Editor of the journal Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry.
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Ali Temara, PhD
Ali Temara is an environmental toxicologist with special interest in marine ecotoxicology and environmental risk assessment. His expertise includes the assessment of the combined effects of abiotic (e.g., pollution) and biotic factors (e.g., interspecies competition) on the biology of marine benthic organisms. He received his MSc from the University College of North Wales, Bangor (UK) and the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) in 1990 (symbiotic relationships between sulphide oxidizing bacteria and marine organisms), and his PhD from the Free University of Brussels in 1996 (metal ecotoxicology in marine benthos).
After graduation, Ali spent 2 years at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, as a post-doctoral research fellow studying the environmental impact of marine oil spills.
He joined the European Technical Centre of Procter & Gamble, Belgium, in 1999 where he holds the position of Environmental Toxicologist.
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Mark Stalmans, PhD
Mark Stalmans obtained the degree of Agricultural and Chemical Engineer at the
Catholic University of Leuven (K.U.L., Belgium) in 1983 with a specialization in
colloidal and interphase chemistry. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1986 (Leuven)
studying the physical-chemical behavior and geochemical mobility of radio-active
trace metals in soils and sediments. In 1987, Mark joined the environmental
research group of Procter & Gamble's European Research and Development center in
Brussels (Belgium). He has been involved in environmental safety research for a
range of laundry and cleaning product chemicals, such as surfactants, builders,
and bleaches. He has pioneered the development of methodologies for Life-Cycle
Analysis (LCA) at the end of the 80s and the early 90s and has chaired the first
comprehensive European LCI study on detergents in the mid 90s (Sourcing and
production of surfactants and their raw materials). He has been involved in
several other environmental and human safety programmes, as well as regulatory
and stakeholder programmes for laundry & cleaning products and other product
categories such as beauty care products. From 1994 until 2000, he was an active
Council Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
and helped SETAC to organise scientific meetings as chairperson of the SETAC
Meetings Committee. At present, he works in the external relations department of
the F&HC global business unit and is responsable for F&HC programmes on
sustainable product design, energy, water and sustainable chemistry.
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Gert Van Hoof
Gert Van Hoof studied Chemical Engineering at the Catholic Industrial Highschool of Antwerp where he graduated in 1991. He followed a post-graduate course at the University of Leuven in Environmental Sciences. Gert joined Procter & Gamble in 1992 at its European Technical Centre, where he was part of the Western European granular laundry detergent development team. In 1997, he joined the Environmental Safety Department. Gert provides business support on life cycle assessment.
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Drew McAvoy, PhD
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Scott Dyer, PhD
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Scott Belanger, PhD
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Joanna Jaworska, PhD
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Mary Jo Berndard, PhD
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Human Safety
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Esperanza Troyano, PhD
Esperanza Troyano has a Ph.D. in Food Science from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain). From 1993 until 1997, she was a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA), working to develop novel biodegradable polymers (bioplastics and biopolymers used in water treatment processes) via the generation of genetically modified microorganisms and enzymatic processes. In 1997, she joined the Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs Department at the European Technical Center of the Procter & Gamble Company in Brussels. During her time at Procter & Gamble, she has developed expertise in toxicological risk assessment, hazard and safety assessment of chemicals and consumer products. She is currently a Section Head in the Central Product Safety group, managing a global team of toxicologists located in Asia, USA and Europe. |
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Ruth Parker, PhD
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Petra Kern, PhD
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Carlos Rodriguez, PhD
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Frieda Bielen, PhD
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Sustainable development
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Peter White
Peter White is Procter & Gamble’s Associate Director for Corporate Sustainable Development, based in Newcastle, UK. He holds a D.Phil in Chemical Ecology, and an M.A. in Zoology from Oxford University, and an MSc in Applied Hydrobiology from London University.
Peter is part of Procter & Gamble’s Corporate Sustainable Development department - a global group, which works to build sustainable development into P&G’s businesses around the world. He recently co-chaired the WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) working group on Sustainability through the Market and is a member of UNEP’s Advisory Committee on Advertising and Sustainable Consumption.
Peter joined P&G in 1991 where he initially worked on sustainable solid waste management systems. He helped create and lead P&G’s global team promoting the implementation of Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) systems to handle municipal solid waste around the world. In 1995, together with two P&G colleagues, he wrote Integrated Solid Waste Management: A Lifecycle Inventory, a book which pioneered the use of Life Cycle methodology to plan sustainable solid waste systems (A 2nd Edition has just been published).
Prior to P&G, Peter taught biological sciences at Oxford University.
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Tom Feijtel, PhD
Tom studied at the University of Brussels and Gent where he obtained a Biology and Environmental Engineering degree in 1982. In 1986, he moved to the States
with a Rockefeller scholarship to obtain a Ph.D. in Biogeochemistry and Marine
Sciences at Louisiana State University.
From 1986 to 1989, he taught Chemical Engineering and Environmental Modeling at the Agricultural University of Wageningen in The Netherlands, where he was appointed associate professor.
In 1989, he joined Procter & Gamble. His responsibilities included
(1) management of Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Unit of P&G in Europe,
(2) design and management of environmental safety programs
(3) risk assessment and risk management of chemicals and
(4) participation in long-range planning of environmental research for the European Chemical Industry.
In 1999, he transferred to the US and assumed the associate Directorship of the Human &
Environmental Safety Division, and managed the Environmental Science Department
globally. He was responsible for management, strategic research planning and
the business plan of the Environmental Research Portfolio of the Company
worldwide, and managed a staff of ~ 60 researchers.
Today, Tom is back in Brussels, where he was appointed associate Director, EU
Corporate External Relations, WE & CEEMEA. His responsibilities include
managing European policy and legislation on consumer & environmental protection,
innovation and competiveness and relationships with European NGOs.
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