Professor Eugenia (Éva) Valsami-Jones PhD

Professor Eugenia (Éva) Valsami-Jones

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chair in Environmental Nanoscience
Director of FENAC

Contact details

Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Valsami-Jones’ research interests focus on understanding reactivity at the nanoscale, particularly interactions of nanoparticles with pollutants and biota and biomineralisation processes. She has carried out research on the interaction of a variety of carbon- and metal-based nano-objects with biota in vitro and in vivo and has pioneered novel methods of labelling nanomaterials. She has also worked on understanding the formation and stability of biogenic apatite.

Professor Valsami-Jones is part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics.  This unique team brings together chemists, environmental scientists, philosophers, linguists, economists, and experts in many other fields, to holistically address the global plastics problem.

Qualifications

1990 – PhD, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1986 – BSc Geology, University of Athens, Greece

Teaching

  • Course director: MRes Biological and Environmental Nanoscience.
  • Lectures on pollutant mobility and modelling (Environmental Pollution).
  • Lectures on the safety of nanotechnology (Global Environmental Issues).

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Chen, Y-C, You, C-F, Chung, C-H, Huang, K-F, Wu, S-F, Valsami-Jones, E & Baltatzis, E 2025, 'An Evaluation of Secondary Mineral Formation/Dissolution and Phase Separation Based on Mg Isotopic Fractionation: The Shallow-Water Hydrothermal System in Milos, Greece', Water, vol. 17, no. 3, 370. https://doi.org/10.3390/w17030370

Quilumba-Dutan, V, Carreón-Álvarez, C, Sanabria-Ayala, V, Hidalgo-Figueroa, S, Chakraborty, S, Valsami-Jones, E, López-Revilla, R & Rodríguez-López, JL 2025, 'Assessment of Phage-Displayed Peptides Targeting Cancer Cell Surface Proteins: A Comprehensive Molecular Docking Study', Journal of Peptide Science, vol. 31, no. 3, e70004. https://doi.org/10.1002/psc.70004

Chakraborty, S, Valsami‐Jones, E & K. Misra, S 2025, 'Characterising Dissolution Dynamics of Engineered Nanomaterials: Advances in Analytical Techniques and Safety‐by‐Design', Small. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202500622

Ibrahim, B, Akere, TH, Dhumal, P, Valsami-Jones, E & Chakraborty, S 2025, 'Designing safer nanohybrids: stability and ecotoxicological assessment of graphene oxide-gold nanoparticle hybrids in embryonic zebrafish', Environmental Science: Nano, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1965-1978. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4en01173b

Adwibi, IA, Chakraborty, S, Ibrahim, B, Ali-Boucetta, H & Valsami-Jones, E 2025, 'Enhancing amantadine delivery through PLGA micelles: a novel approach using oleic acid and Pluronic F68 for sustained release and reduced toxicity', RSC Advances, vol. 15, no. 50, pp. 42630-42639. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ra05261k

Permana, R, Sharma, S, Stark, C, Price, D, Pfrang, C & Valsami-Jones, E 2025, 'Europium-labelled nanopolystyrene as model nanoplastics for environmental fate investigations: Synthesis and optimisation', Polymer Testing, vol. 150, 108903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2025.108903

Saarimäki, LA, Fratello, M, del Giudice, G, Di Lieto, E, Afantitis, A, Alenius, H, Chiavazzo, E, Gulumian, M, Karisola, P, Lynch, I, Mancardi, G, Melagraki, G, Netti, P, Papadiamantis, AG, Peijnenburg, W, A Santos, H, Serchi, T, Shahbazi, MA, Stoeger, T, Valsami-Jones, E, Vivo, P, Vinković Vrček, I, Vogel, U, Wick, P, Winkler, DA, Serra, A & Greco, D 2025, 'Wisdom of Crowds for Supporting the Safety Evaluation of Nanomaterials', Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 59, no. 29, pp. 14969-14980. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c00841

Chakraborty, S, Langford, N, Kohl, Y, Varsou, DD, Stokes, W, Papaioannou, E, Wien, S, Berkesi, K, Britton, A, Ibrahim, B, Afantitis, A, Zoikis Karathanasis, A, Nelson, A & Valsami-Jones, E 2024, 'Are Ni-SiC nanoparticle electroplated coatings a safer alternative to hard chromium? A comprehensive aging, toxicity, and in silico study to assess safety by design', Environmental Science: Nano. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4en00751d

Oyehan, TA, Ganiyu, SA, Pfrang, C, Walker, M & Valsami-Jones, E 2024, 'Low cost MXene synthesis for regenerative adsorption of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX)', Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 492, 152217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.152217

Ibrahim, B, Akere, TH, Chakraborty, S, Valsami-Jones, E & Ali-Boucetta, H 2024, 'Modulation of Heat Shock Protein Expression in Alveolar Adenocarcinoma Cells through Gold Nanoparticles and Cisplatin Treatment', Pharmaceutics, vol. 16, no. 3, 380. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics16030380

Chakraborty, S, Ibrahim, B, Dhumal, P, Langford, N, Garbett, L & Valsami-Jones, E 2024, 'Perturbation of enzyme structure by nano-metal organic frameworks: A question mark on their safety-by-design?', Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters, vol. 5, 100127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2024.100127

Comment/debate

Monikh, FA, Materić, D, Valsami-Jones, E, Grossart, H-P, Altmann, K, Holzinger, R, Lynch, I, Stubenrauch, J & Peijnenburg, W 2025, 'Challenges in studying microplastics in human brain', Nature Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-04045-3

Preprint

Chakraborty, S, Mikulska, I, Dhumal, P, Langford, N, Nehzati, S, Boseley, R, Pham, S, Pfrang, C, Kaur, M, Valsami-Jones, E, Ignatyev, K, Menon, D, Misra, SK & Lynch, I 2025 'Mapping the Hierarchical Environmental Transformations of nanoscale UiO-66 Metal-organic Framework' ChemRxiv. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-1c6nz

Review article

Permana, R, Chakraborty, S & Valsami-Jones, E 2025, 'Nanoplastics in aquatic environments: The hidden impact of aging on fate and toxicity', Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, vol. 7, pp. 429-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enceco.2025.02.007

Dhumal, P, Chakraborty, S, Ibrahim, B, Kaur, M & Valsami-Jones, E 2024, 'Green-Synthesised Carbon Nanodots: A SWOT Analysis for their Safe and Sustainable Innovation', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 480, 144115. https://doi.org/1016/j.jclepro.2024.144115

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Expertise

Environmental nanoparticles, pollutants