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

Eugenia Valsami-Jones - Research in 60 seconds videoProfessor 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

Ibrahim, B, Akere, TH, Chakraborty, S, Valsami-Jones, E & Ali-Boucetta, H 2023, 'Gold Nanoparticles Induced Size Dependent Cytotoxicity on Human Alveolar Adenocarcinoma Cells by Inhibiting the Ubiquitin Proteasome System', Pharmaceutics, vol. 15, no. 2, 432. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15020432

Akere, TH, Zigiotto de Medeiros, AM, Martinez, DST, Ibrahim, B, Ali-Boucetta, H & Valsami-Jones, E 2023, 'Nanotoxicity of Graphene Oxide – Gold Nanohybrid to Daphnia magna', Aquatic Toxicology, vol. 260, 106552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2023.106552

Abdolahpur Monikh, F, Guo, Z, Zhang, P, Vijver, MG, Lynch, I, Valsami-Jones, E & Peijnenburg, WJGM 2022, 'An analytical workflow for dynamic characterization and quantification of metal-bearing nanomaterials in biological matrices', Nature protocols, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1926-1952. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-022-00701-x

Abdolahpur Monikh, F, Hansen, SF, Vijver, MG, Kentin, E, Nielsen, MB, Baun, A, Syberg, K, Lynch, I, Valsami-Jones, E & Peijnenburg, WJGM 2022, 'Can Current Regulations Account for Intentionally Produced Nanoplastics?', Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 3836-3839. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c00965

Chakraborty, S, Prakash, P, Shah, J, Mayya, C, Singh, S, Ranganathan, R, Soppina, V, Jones, EV & Misra, SK 2022, 'CuO nanoparticles as copper-ion reservoirs for Elesclomol-mediated intracellular oxidative stress: implications for anticancer therapies', ACS Applied Nano Materials, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1607-1620. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c04350

Chakraborty, S, Prasad, R, Pandey, PK, Khan, A, Jain, NK, Jones, EV, Srivastava, R & Misra, SK 2022, 'Doxorubicin encapsulated hollow self-assembled CuS nanoparticles clusters for bio-responsive chemo-photo therapy', Materials Letters, vol. 327, 133017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2022.133017

Zou, Z, Li, S, Wu, J, Guo, S, Zhang, Y, Huang, M, Valsami-Jones, E, Lynch, I, Liu, X, Wang, J & Zou, J 2022, 'Effects of nanopolystyrene addition on nitrogen fertilizer fate, gaseous loss of N from the soil, and soil microbial community composition', Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 438, 129509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129509

Dong, F, Quevedo, AC, Wang, X, Valsami-Jones, E & Kreft, J-U 2022, 'Experimental evolution of Pseudomonas putida under silver ion versus nanoparticle stress', Environmental Microbiology, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 905-918. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15854

Abdolahpur Monikh, F, Holm, S, Kortet, R, Bandekar, M, Kekäläinen, J, Koistinen, A, Leskinen, JTT, Akkanen, J, Huuskonen, H, Valtonen, A, Dupuis, L, Peijnenburg, W, Lynch, I, Valsami-Jones, E & Kukkonen, JVK 2022, 'Quantifying the trophic transfer of sub-micron plastics in an assembled food chain', Nano Today, vol. 46, 101611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nantod.2022.101611

Hansjosten, I, Takamiya, M, Rapp, J, Reiner, L, Fritsch-Decker, S, Mattern, D, Andraschko, S, Anders, C, Pace, G, Dickmeis, T, Peravali, R, Rastegar, S, Strähle, U, Hsiao, IL, Gilliland, D, Ojea-Jimenez, I, Ambrose, SVY, Belinga-Desaunay-Nault, MFA, Khan, AO, Lynch, I, Valsami-Jones, E, Diabaté, S & Weiss, C 2022, 'Surface functionalisation-dependent adverse effects of metal nanoparticles and nanoplastics in zebrafish embryos', Environmental Science: Nano, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 375-392. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1en00299f

Chapter

Papadiamantis, AG, Afantitis, A, Tsoumanis, A, Karatzas, P, Doganis, P, Varsou, DD, Sarimveis, H, Ellis, LJA, Valsami-Jones, E, Lynch, I & Melagraki, G 2022, Image Analysis and Deep Learning Web Services for Nano informatics. in K Roy (ed.), Chemometrics and Cheminformatics in Aquatic Toxicology. Wiley, pp. 547-564. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119681397.ch28

Comment/debate

Quevedo, AC, Ellis, LJA, Lynch, I & Valsami-Jones, E 2022, 'Correction: Quevedo et al. Mechanisms of silver nanoparticle uptake by embryonic zebrafish cells. Nanomaterials, 2021, 11, 2699', Nanomaterials, vol. 12, no. 2, 225. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12020225

Peters, R, Elbers, I, Undas, A, Sijtsma, E, Briffa, S, Carnell-Morris, P, Siupa, A, Yoon, TH, Burr, L, Schmid, D, Tentschert, J, Hachenberger, Y, Jungnickel, H, Luch, A, Meier, F, Kocic, J, Kim, J, Park, BC, Hardy, B, Johnston, C, Jurkschat, K, Radnik, J, Hodoroaba, VD, Lynch, I & Valsami-Jones, E 2022, 'Correction: Peters et al. Benchmarking the ACEnano Toolbox for Characterisation of Nanoparticle Size and Concentration by Interlaboratory Comparison. Molecules 2021, 26, 5315.', Molecules, vol. 27, no. 15, 4849. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27154849

Conference article

Knigge, X, Guo, Z, Valsami-jones, E, Hodoroaba, V & Radnik, J 2022, 'Influence of sterilization on the surface of nanoparticles studied with XPS / HAXPES in comparison to SEM / EDS', Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 28, no. S1, pp. 986-988. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1431927622004287

Review article

Wyrzykowska, E, Mikolajczyk, A, Lynch, I, Jeliazkova, N, Kochev, N, Sarimveis, H, Doganis, P, Karatzas, P, Afantitis, A, Melagraki, G, Serra, A, Greco, D, Subbotina, J, Lobaskin, V, Bañares, MA, Valsami-Jones, E, Jagiello, K & Puzyn, T 2022, 'Representing and describing nanomaterials in predictive nanoinformatics', Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 924-932. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01173-6

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Expertise

Environmental nanoparticles, pollutants