Dr. Hans Mol is senior scientist at RIKILT-Wageningen University & Research (Wageningen, the Netherlands) with more than 20 years of experience in food safety analysis. He is responsible for analytical method development, validation, and quality control, as well as analytical services in the field of residues and contaminants. His main emphasis is on pesticides, mycotoxins, and plant toxins in food, feed, and related matrices. His key techniques are chromatography with various types of mass spectrometric detection, and rapid MS-based screening methods. He heads the National Reference Laboratory for Mycotoxins and the National Reference Laboratory for Pesticides in products of animal origin. He is active in many national and international research projects, amongst others in the framework of EU (FP7), EFSA, and CEN projects as work package leader, coordinator, and project leader. He is an active member in EU working groups on analytical quality control in the fields of pesticides and mycotoxins and is involved in technical training and consultancy within these domains.
