Dr Karen Galea
Head of Workplace Exposure Science
Karen is Head of Workplace Exposure Science in our Research Division. She is actively involved in a wide variety of research projects, mainly focused on exposure assessment relating to health risks. Her workplace based research has included inhalation, dermal and biomonitoring exposure assessment in a range of industrial sectors, exposure model validation and evaluation, historical hygiene assessment etc. Her research has also extended beyond the working environment e.g. pesticide biomonitoring in residents living near agricultural land, consumer exposure to diesel and lubricating oils, use of low cost sensors by citizens and use of respiratory protection against volcanic ash.
Contact Details:
- Section Head - Workplace Exposure Science
- Office: +44 (0) 131 449 8034
- Mobile: +44 (0) 7818 426 612
- Email: [email protected]
Qualifications:
- PhD Environmental Medicine
- MSc Occupational Hygiene
- BSc (Hons) Environmental Health (First Class)
Committee and Society Memberships:
- Member of the British Occupational Hygiene Society
- Committee member of the UK & Ireland Exposure Science meetings
- Member of the Institution of Environmental Sciences (MIEnvSc)
- Member of the Institute of Science and Technology (MIScT)
- Member of the ISO/TC 146/SC 2/WG 8 "Assessment of contamination of skin and surfaces from airborne chemicals" committees
- Member of the British Standards Institute ‘EH/002/02 Work place atmospheres’ committee
Research Interests:
Highlighted current research interests include:
- IMPRESS – Improving exposure assessment methodologies for epidemiological studies on pesticides, http://www.impress-project.org/
- HBM4EU - https://www.hbm4eu.eu/, in particular the European human biological monitoring study on occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium.