Dr. Dennis Paustenbach
Futureye Associate
Dr. Paustenbach specializes in the areas of industrial and environmental toxicology, occupational health, historical state-of-knowledge regarding environmental issues, and ecological and human risk assessment. He has directed the scientific aspects of toxic tort cases. Dennis has also provided expert witness testimony in public meetings and trials concerning the health effects of chemicals in sediments, air, soil, consumer products, groundwater, and the workplace.
Dr. Paustenbach has been an invited technical reviewer for prominent journals and of proposed regulations. He has published approximately 200 peer-reviewed articles and written nearly 40 book chapters in the fields of industrial hygiene, human and aquatic
toxicology, engineering, and risk assessment. His textbooks on risk assessment are among the most popular ever published and they have been adopted at a number of universities.
Qualifications:
- Dr Eng (Honorary), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2007
- Sc.D. (Honorary), Purdue University, 2006
- Ph.D., Environmental Toxicology, Purdue University, 1982
- M.S., Counseling Psychology, Indiana State University, (at night), 1978
- M.S., Industrial Hygiene, University of Michigan, 1977
- BSChE, Chemical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1974
- Post-Doctoral Research (in absentia), Pharmacokinetics, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio; 1985-1987 (Dr. Melvin Andersen, collaborator).Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health; Center for Risk Analysis; Boston, MA. A one-year appointment (June 1996-June 1997).