OUR PEOPLE
Abdou Mamouni
Ph.D.
Office: +41 61 201 2430
Mobile: +41 79 27 27 245
Academic Credentials
- Ph.D., Industrial Chemistry, Claude Bernard University, France, 1989
- M.S., Industrial Chemical Science & Technology, Claude Bernard University, France, 1986
- D.E.A., Industrial Chemistry, Claude Bernard University, France, 1986
- B.Sc., Chemistry and Physics, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco, 1985
Languages
- Arabic
- French
- German
As an environmental fate specialist, Dr. Mamouni specializes in the study of the behaviour and metabolism of chemicals in water, soil, sediment, plants and air. He has over 37 years of experience conducting and monitoring environmental studies. He provides scientific and strategic consultation to industrial clients.
Dr. Mamouni is experienced in the provision of expert regulatory advice relating to the environmental fate of agrochemicals and biocides and representation and negotiation with EU regulatory authorities on such issues. Dr. Mamouni has been involved in the preparation of a large number of assessments for the EU dossiers.
Dr. Mamouni has devoted 30 years of his academic and professional career to testing the environmental safety of chemicals, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and biocides according to worldwide regulations. He has an in-depth knowledge all aspects of environmental fate degradation pathways and has developed unique and successful testing strategies for complex compounds. This has involved for example conducting tailor-made studies aimed at addressing a particular regulatory issue. His expertise has been of particular use when environmental issues have arisen with regulatory authorities. Using even limited available data, he has prepared expert regulatory statements or arguments for immediate submission to authorities and proposed rapid and cost-effective testing strategies to further support the registration of the compound. When required, he has represented clients in dealings with regulatory authorities worldwide. His experience with a vast spectrum of compounds has facilitated postulation of metabolic pathways is soil, plants and water and his vast experience in the major analytical techniques (LC/MS/MS, GC/MS/MS and NMR) has enabled successful characterization and identification of metabolites.
Dr. Mamouni worked as Head of the Environmental Fate and Metabolism department at Swiss-based Contract research Organization for eleven years. Within this position, he acted as regulatory consultant in matters related to environmental fate, metabolism, and leaching for the registration department. He was mainly responsible for evaluating data and providing technical advice on environmental fate to clients worldwide.