Roel Schins

Associate Professor

Particle toxicology

About Info

Roel Schins studied Biological Health Sciences and obtained his PhD in 1996 at Maastricht University. His main research is directed at understanding how particles can cause diseases in humans. Roel had research stays at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM, University-Paris-XII, 1991-1992) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO, Zeist, 1997). He then went to Edinburgh Napier University in the UK on a postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1998-1999) and completed postgraduate training in toxicology and chemistry towards his registration as board certified toxicologist (SMBWO, ERT).

In July 1999, he joined the Medical Institute of Environmental Hygiene at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany and in 2002 he became research group leader at the newly founded IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine. Since 2005, Roel has provided teaching and training for the Medical Faculty at Düsseldorf University as well as regular (postgraduate) course support for the German Society for Toxicology and EUROTOX. Since March 2025, Roel is appointed as associate professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Roel has provided expert opinion to the World Health Organisation, the EU-Health and Food Safety Department and the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Environment (NRW, Germany). He has been an expert panel member for the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanoparticles and the Senate Commission on Food Safety of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 2011, he is member of the DFG Senate Commission on the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area (“MAK Kommission”).