Jana Klánová is a professor of environmental chemistry and director of RECETOX, the EU Centre of Excellence in Environmental Health Sciences at Masaryk University ( www.recetox.muni.cz). She coordinates a human exposome research programme leveraging her experience in the fields of chemical exposure and risk assessment, development of passive sampling and analytical techniques, designing large environmental monitoring networks and population cohorts and building environmental information systems ( www.pops-gmp.org).
Jana has developed a national research infrastructure providing open access to samples from the international air and water monitoring programmes and population cohorts, capacities of accredited laboratories for target and nontarget exposomics, metabolomics, proteomics and metagenomics, as well as to data collections and associated data management and processing tools.
She also coordinates EIRENE ( www.eirene.eu), the European InfrastRucturE for humaN Exposome research prioritised in the Roadmap of the European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) since 2021. EIRENE brings together research infrastructures in 25 countries in and outside Europe to offer sufficient capacity and scalable tools for population-based research.
In the last two decades, Jana has led numerous European Structural and Investment Fund projects and European framework program projects in a total volume of 100 million euro. She participates in the Horizon Europe Partnership for Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) and the International Human Exposome Network (IHEN).
She has published more than 300 scientific papers (h-index of 56), but has also been active in translating scientific knowledge to policy. She works as an expert for the United Nations Environment Program and the World Health Organisation, and leads the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) initiative on the Global Observation System for Persistent Organic Pollutants (GOS4POPs) to enhance the availability and use of scientific data. Jana is an elected member of the Czech Learned Society and honorary doctor of Orebro University in Sweden.
Fun Fact: Is there a better place to advance exposomics than the city of Brno where Gregor Mendel conducted his pea plant experiments and laid a foundation of the modern science of genetics? Jana’s latest passion is to bring exposomics to people’s lives through the establishment of Brno Living Lab, a quadruple helix of scientists, companies, policy makers and citizens.