Anya Sherman

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.