Prof. Jana Klánová
Human exposome

Jana Klánová is a professor of environmental chemistry and director of RECETOX, the EU Centre of Excellence in Environmental Health Sciences at Masaryk University, supported by the H2020 Teaming project. She leads a human exposome research programme combining expertise in environmental chemistry, toxicology and health. She leverages her research experience in the fields of chemical exposure and risk assessment, contamination of outdoor and indoor environments, development of passive sampling and analytical techniques, designing large environmental monitoring networks and human biomonitoring studies and building data environmental information systems.

Jana leads the RECETOX research infrastructure providing an access to data and samples from CELSPAC birth cohorts and biobanks, MONET air and water monitoring networks, accredited laboratories for target and nontarget exposomics, metabolomics, proteomics and metagenomics, as well as to data resources and associated tools. She also coordinates EIRENE, the European InfrastRucturE for humaN Exposome research which has been a part of the European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) roadmap since 2021. EIRENE brings together research infrastructures in 25 countries in and outside Europe to offer sufficient capacity and scalable tools for population-based research.

In the last two decades, Jana has led numerous European Structural Fund projects and European framework program projects in a total volume of 100 million euro. She participates in the Horizon Europe Partnership for Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) and the International Human Exposome Network (IHEN).

She has published more than 300 scientific papers (h-index of 56), but has also been active in translating scientific knowledge to policy. She works as an expert for the United Nations Environment Program and the World Health Organisation, and leads the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) initiative on the Global Observation System for Persistent Organic Pollutants (GOS4POPs) to enhance the availability and use of scientific data. She has worked for several years in the Horizon 2020 Program Committee and is currently a member of the thematic group on the environment. Jana is an elected member of the Czech Learned Society and a honorary doctor of Orebro University in Sweden.