Dr. Andrea Haase studied biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, obtained a PhD from the University of Heidelberg, finished a postgraduate study in Toxicology at the University of Leipzig and completed her habilitation in pharmacology and toxicology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Since 2008 she is working at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin, where she is the Unit Head of the “Fibre and Nanotoxicology” Unit and the Deputy Department Head of the “Chemical and Product Safety” Department. In addition, she is affiliated as a private lecturer to Freie Universität (FU) Berlin and appointed as an extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa.

Her research is strongly focused on New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and their application for human health risk assessments as well as for Safe-and-Sustainable-Innovation Approaches (SSIA) for advanced (nano)materials. She has written more than 100 scientific publications and is involved in several large research projects such as GRACIOUS, NanoInformaTIX, HARMLESS, POLYRISK, NAMs4NANO. Andrea is a national scientific expert in the EFSA Nano Network (Network for Risk Assessment of Nanotechnologies in Food and Feed) since 2024. In addition, she chairs the German Interagency Working Group on Advanced Materials.