Tamara Tal

Prof. Dr. Tamara Tal leads the Mechanistic Toxicology Group at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ and holds a Professorship in Integrated Systems Toxicology in the Medical Faculty at University Leipzig. Prior to joining the UFZ in 2019, Tamara was a Principal Investigator at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Research and Development. Her group develops new approach methods for developmental, acute, and adult neurotoxicity endpoints and works to resolve underlying mechanisms by which widely occurring pollutants alter neurobehavioral development in early life stage zebrafish.