Minna Saaristo

Dr Minna Saaristo is Senior Scientist - Emerging contaminants at EPA Victoria. She joined EPA Victoria in September 2019 and leads the Emerging contaminants program. Dr Saaristo is an internationally recognized expert with over 18 years of experience in contaminants and their effects on aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Prior EPA, Dr Saaristo was as a research fellow at Monash University for ten years. Her research program investigated the effects of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting chemicals on behaviour, ecology and evolutionary processes in wildlife.