Emma’s background was as a Principal Scientist at LabCorp where she focused on ensuring that environmental services provided to clients are relevant and up to date with emerging environmental concerns.

Recent examples include the introduction and validation of endocrine disruption testing program; an increased focus on biodegradation of microplastics and a focus on passive sampling/passive dosing for difficult to test chemicals and mixtures.

Prior to this, Emma spent eight years at Unilever’s Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre working across multi-disciplinary teams in human health and environmental science covering mechanistic safety science, exposure safety science and various global R&D support projects.

Emma has a PhD from Cranfield University where she investigated the fate and effects of triclosan on soils receiving biosolids.