I completed my BSc and MEng in Environmental Engineering at Cornell University (United States), followed by a PhD at the University of Vienna (Austria) where I applied HRMS to study the uptake and metabolism of rubber-derived chemicals in plants. As a postdoctoral fellow at Wageningen University and Research (WUR), I expanded this work to track the metabolism of non-target wastewater-derived micropollutants. During my PhD, I also conducted research on rubber-derived compounds in indoor air of rock climbing halls. Following my stay in Wageningen, and successful defense of my PhD thesis, I returned to the University of Vienna as a postdoctoral researcher to conduct follow up research on human-relevant exposures, focusing on chemical fate in the human lung and using multivariate statistics to identify best practices to reduce indoor contamination. In November 2025, to continue to develop my expertise in human exposure and health implications of environmental chemical exposures, I joined the Human Exposure to Organic Pollutants (Expo-Hum) group at IDAEA-CSIC in Spain to work with Dr. Montse Marquès Bueno on assessing the chemical exposome of a mother-child cohort.
A-Z Researchers
Anya Sherman
Postdoc Researcher
- anya.sherman@idaea.csic.es
- 437923
- iD ORCID: 0000-0001-6108-8251
Summary
Latest publications
Climbing hall characteristics have only minor influence on the concentrations of rubber-derived compounds in dust, highlighting the need for safe and sustainable-by-design material-level solutions
2025 — DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-mg0ws
The Invisible Footprint of Climbing Shoes: High Exposure to Rubber Additives in Indoor Facilities
ACS ES&T Air — 2025 — DOI: 10.1021/acsestair.5c00017
Tire-Wear Derived Compounds: From Particles to Plants
Ssrn — 2025 — DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5244128
Uptake of tire-wear derived compounds by lettuce grown in three soils
Environment International — 2025 — DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109742
Uptake of Tire-Derived Compounds in Leafy Vegetables and Implications for Human Dietary Exposure
Chemrxiv — 2024 — DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-wqwcg
Latest projects
101278300
Fetal Exposomics Modulated by placental Metabolism
Start date: 01/01/2027 - End date: 31/12/2028
101278300
Fetal Exposomics modulated by placental metabolism (FEMME)
Start date: 01/01/2027 - End date: 31/12/2028
CNS2024-154628
Evaluación del Exposoma Químico en el Embarazo y su Papel en el Desarrollo de la Diabetes Mellitus Gestacional
Start date: 04/01/2025 - End date: 31/03/2027
