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Mechanistic
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About Tjalling Jager and DEBtox ResearchDEBtox Research is the private company that I run, offering my knowledge of mechanistic modelling, and basically doing good (applied) science for clients. After finishing my Biology study at the VU University, I worked for 9 years at RIVM on models and approaches for chemical risk assessment (specifically, EUSES and its predecessors). I also specialised on (models for) bioaccumulation, and focussed on earthworms, on which I wrote my PhD thesis (download my thesis from Leanpub), while being employed at RIVM. From 2002-2015, I have worked at the VU University in Amsterdam, at the Department of Theoretical Biology on DEBtox and related topics. You are welcome to take a look at the website of the department for more information about DEB and the work we did there (the department ceased to exist in May 2015). As of 1 March 2015, I have left the VU University to continue working on DEBtox, DEBkiss and GUTS as a self-employed researcher under the name DEBtox Research. Even though this is a big change for me in terms of working environment and conditions, my activities have remained quite similar. I also maintain the website debtox.info, which contains much more information about DEB-based and GUTS models and their applications to stress ecology (incl. ecotoxicology). This site also contains links to my (free) e-books, lists of relevant publications, and software (incl. the freely-downloadable BYOM package for Matlab). I also maintain the website openguts.info that is dedicated to the openGUTS software for fully-automated analysis of survival data with GUTS. |
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Publication listsI have (co-)authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, four e-books, and a number of book chapters. My ResearcherID on Web of Science shows a list of scientific publications and a citation score from Web of Science (may not include the most recent publications).I also have an Orcid account and a profile on Research Gate, as well as a Google Scholar account. Google Scholar finds many more publications and many more citations than Web of Science. It also includes (citations from) reports, books and online PDFs. The publication output and h-index from Google Scholar should therefore be interpreted in a different way than that of Web of Science. My e-books can be found through my Leanpub author page. A full list of my publications (including books, book chapters, and RIVM reports) can be downloaded here. |
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About DEBnetThis site, and the associated DEBtox information site,
forms a 'node' in an international DEB network comprising
experts in a wide range of fields (aquaculture,
ecotoxicology, economics, ecology and more). At this moment, DEBnet activities include the following highlights:
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