Juraske, Ronnie, Dr.

ETH Zürich Dr. Ronnie Juraske Institute for Environmental Engineering HIF C 43 Schafmattstr. 6 8093 Zurich Telefon: +41 44 633 71 19 Fax: +41 44 633 10 61 E-Mail:

Background

Research Activities & Interests

• Life-cycle Impact Assessment of Chemicals
• Fate and Exposure Modeling of Chemicals
• Multi-criteria Analysis tools for comparative risk assessment
• Assessment of indicators of environmental performance

Journal Publications

• Life Cycle Inventory and Carbon and Water FoodPrint of Fruits and Vegetables: Application to a Swiss Retailer
  Stoessel, Franziska; Juraske, Ronnie; Pfister, Stephan; Hellweg, Stefanie
  Environmental Science&Technology 2012, 46, 3253-3262

• Exposure to engineered nanoparticles: Model and measurements for accident situations in laboratories
  Walser, Tobias; Hellweg, Stefanie; Juraske, Ronnie; Luechinger, Norman A.; Wang, Jing; Fierz, Martin
  Science of the Total Environment 2012, 420, 119-126

• A concurent neuro-fuzzy interface system for screening the ecological risk in rivers
  Ocampo-Duque, Wiliam; Juraske, Ronnie; Kumar, Vikas; Nadal, Martí; Domingo, José Luis; Schuhmacher, Marta
  Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2012, 19, 983-999

• Dynamic Multicrop Model to Characterize Impacts of Pesticides in Food
  Fantke, Peter; Juraske, Ronnie; Antón, Assumpció; Friedrich, Rainer; Jolliet, Olivier
  Environmental Science&Technology 2011, 45, 8842-8849

• Determining pesticide foliar half-lives from soil half-life value: Not so"cut-and-dry"
  Thomas, Philippe J.; Mineau, Pierre; Juraske, Ronnie
  Chemosphere 2011, 84, 1531-1533

• Pesticide Uptake in Potatoes: Model and Field Experiments
  Juraske, Ronnie; Mosquera Vivas, Carmen S.; Erazo Velásquez, Alexander; García Santos, Glenda; Berdugo Moreno, Mónica B.; Diaz Gomez, Jaime; Binder, Claudia R.; Hellweg, Stefanie; Guerrero Dallos, Jairo A.
  Environmental Science&Technology 2011, 45, 651-657

• Life cycle toxicity assessment of pesticides used in integrated and organic production of oranges in the Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
  Juraske, Ronnie; Sanjuán, Neus
  Chemosphere 2011, 82, 956-962

• Is it only CO2 that matters? A life cycle perspective on shallow geothermal systems
  Saner, D.; Juraske, R.; Kubert, M.; Blum, P.; Hellweg, S.; Bayer, P.
  Renewable&Sustainable Energy Reviews 2010, 14, 1798-1813

• Life cycle human toxicity assessment of pesticides: Comparing fruit and vegetable diets in Switzerland and the United States
  Juraske, R.; Mutel, C. L.; Stoessel, F.; Hellweg, S.
  Chemosphere 2009, 77, 939-945

• Uptake and persistence of pesticides in plants: Measurements and model estimates for imidacloprid after foliar and soil application
  Juraske, R.; Castells, F.; Vijay, A.; Munoz, P.; Anton, A.
  Journal of Hazardous Materials 2009, 165, 683-689

• USEtox-the UNEP-SETAC toxicity model: recommended characterisation factors for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in life cycle impact assessment
  Rosenbaum, R. K.; Bachmann, T. M.; Gold, L. S.; Huijbregts, M. A. J.; Jolliet, O.; Juraske, R.; Koehler, A.; Larsen, H. F.; MacLeod, M.; Margni, M.; McKone, T. E.; Payet, J.; Schuhmacher, M.; van de Meent, D.; Hauschild, M. Z.
  International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 2008, 13, 532-546

• Estimating half-lives of pesticides in/on vegetation for use in fate and exposure models
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells F.
  Chemosphere 2008, 70, 1748-1755
• PestScreen: A screening approach for scoring and ranking pesticides by their environmental and toxicological concern
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells F.; Huijbregts M.A.J.
  Environment International 2007, 33, 886-893
• Human intake fractions of pesticides via greenhouse tomato consumption: Comparing model estimates with measurements for captan
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells F.; Huijbregts M.A.J.
  Chemosphere 2007, 67, 1102-1107
• Bioluminescent Bacteria as Indicators of Chemical Contamination of Coastal Waters
  Frischer M.E.; Danforth J.M.; Foy T.F.; Juraske R.
  Journal of Environmental Quality 2005, 34, 1328-1336

Conference Proceedings & Presentations

• Life Cycle Human Toxicity of Pesticides: Comparing fruit and vegetable diets in Switzerland and the United States
  Juraske R.; Mutel C.; Stoessel F.; Hellweg S.
  SETAC Europe 19th annual meeting, Göteborg, Sweden, 2009
• Regionalised Water Inventory and Impact Assessment For LCA: Energy Crops in South America
  Pfister S.; Bayer B.; Juraske R.; Koehler A.; Hellweg S.
  CILCA 2009, Pucón, Chile, 2009
• Regionalised LCIA of vegetable and fruit production: Quantifying the environmental impacts of freshwater use
  Pfister S.; Stoessel F.; Juraske R.; Koehler A.; Hellweg S.
  LCA in Foods 2008, Zurich, Switzerland, 2008
• LCA screening indicators applied to a fruit & vegetable data set
  Mutel C.; Stoessel F.; Pfister S.; Juraske R.; Hellweg S.
  LCA in Foods 2008, Zurich, Switzerland, 2008
• Probabilistic and spatially-resolved modeling of emissions from municipal solid waste incineration in Europe
  Koehler A.; Saner D.; Salzmann C.; Peyer F.; Guthmann S.; Juraske R.; Hellweg S.
  Reliable Data for Waste Management, Vienna, Austria, 2008
• The Ecoinvent Database v.2.01 - Personal observations and comments, Software Tools for Life Cycle Assessment
  Juraske R.
  Barcelona, Spain, 2008
• Modelling uptake and persistence of pesticides in plants: Human intake of imidacloprid through tomato consumption
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells F.
  SETAC Europe 18th annual meeting, Warsaw, Poland, 2008
• A screening ecological risk based model to assess the impact of hazardous substances in river systems based on self organizing maps and fuzzy reasoning
  Ocampo-Duque W.; Juraske R.; Kumar V.; Nadal M.; Schuhmacher M.; Domingo J.L.
  Risk Assessment in European River Basins, Leipzig, Germany, 2007
• PestScreen: Screening, scoring and ranking pesticides by life-cycle impact assessment approach
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells F.; Huijbregts M.A.J.
  LCM 2007, Zürich, Switzerland, 2007
• Estimating half-lives of pesticides for use in fate and exposure models
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells F.
  SETAC Europe 17th annual meeting, Porto, Portugal, 2007
• Toxicity assessment of pesticides used in integrated pest management of orange crops in Spain
  Martins N.; Juraske R.; Sanjuán N.
  LCA in Foods 2007, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007
• Evaluating the environmental risk of pesticides by combining life-cycle impact assessment techniques and experimental results
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells F.
  SETAC North America 27th annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2006
• A method for ranking pesticides by their environmental performance
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells F.
  SETAC Europe 16th annual meeting, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2006
• Pesticide fate model validation with experimental measured residue concentrations on greenhouse tomato plants
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells F.
  SETAC Europe 16th annual meeting, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2006
• Methodologies for Toxicity Assessment of Pesticides
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells, F.
  In: M. Schumacher and F. Castells (Editors), Integration of LCA and Risk Analysis Tools. Spanish and Catalan Network of LCA. Tarragona, Spain, 2005
• Pesticide predictive modelling of agricultural products in the frame of Life-Cycle assessment
  Juraske R.; Antón A.; Castells, F.
  LCM 2005, Barcelona, Spain, 2005
• Ratio of Bioluminescent to Total Bacteria as an Indicator of Human Impact in Coastal Estuarine Systems
  Frischer M.E.; Danforth J.M.; Pagan S.E.; Juraske R.; Blechschmidt A.; Verity P.G.
  101st General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Orlando, FL, USA, 2001

Teaching

• Environment and Computer Laboratory I (Software for Environmental Assessments)
• Environment and Computer Laboratory II (Measuring and Modeling of Nanoparticles at Workplaces)
• Environmental Risk Assessment
• Chemical Engineering Basics
• Chemical Engineering Laboratory

Related Scientific Activities

• Review work for scientific journals:
  - Chemosphere
  - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  - Environmental Pollution
  - Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy
  - Environmental Science & Technology
  - Food and Chemical Toxicology
  - Food Additives and Contaminants
  - Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
  - Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
  - International Journal of Environmental Chemistry
  - International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
  - Journal of Environmental Management
  - Journal of Hazardous Materials
  - Journal of Industrial Ecology
  - Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
  - Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology
  - Science of the total Environment
  - Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
  - Weed Research
• Member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Sustainable Chemistry Issue Team (2008-2010)
• Representative of Swiss Federal Office for the Environment in the Member States Mirror Group of the European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (2008-2011)
• Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)