Dr. Peter Jacob is the head of the Research Group Risk Analysis. He is working since 25 years in the fields of radiation risk and radioecology. Main research activities include dose reconstruction and risk analyses with models of carcinogenesis. Dr. Jacob is member of the International Commission of Radiological Protection (ICRP), of the German delegations for the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), of the German Commission of Radiological Protection (SSK) and chairs the committee for radiation risks of the SSK. He was chairman of the ICRU Report Committee on 'Retrospective Assessments of Exposures to Ionising Radiation' (ICRU Report 68). Dr. Jacob coordinated among others the EC funded projects 'Dose reconstruction' (FP4), 'Dose reconstruction for workers of Mayak and for Tech riverside residents, DOSREC (FP5)', and the Inco-Copernicus project 'Dose reconstruction for workers of Mayak and for Tech riverside residents'.

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