Rate My Professor Melanie Kah

Professor Melanie Kah is a professor in the School of Environment within the Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland. She graduated with an MSc in Agronomy and Soil Sciences from the University of Nancy (ENSAIA, France). She then completed a PhD on the fate of ionisable pesticides in soils at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Following her doctorate, she was recruited by the UK Food and Environmental Research Agency (FERA), where she assessed the exposure and hazard of a wide range of contaminants in projects commissioned by government and industry. In 2009, she joined the University of Vienna in Austria, developing projects focused on the interactions between contaminants and natural or engineered nanoparticles.

Professor Kah was invited as a Distinguished Visiting Scientist for one year at the CSIRO Land and Water in Adelaide, Australia, before joining the School of Environment at the University of Auckland in 2019. Her research centres on the emission, fate, effects, and remediation of contaminants in the environment, with particular emphasis on nanopesticides, nanoagrochemicals, and soil science. She has contributed to understanding the behaviour of contaminants in soils and other environmental matrices through laboratory, field, and desk-based studies. Professor Kah co-leads the Soilsafe Aotearoa programme, a transdisciplinary initiative focused on soil contaminants. Her professional email address is publicly listed on the University of Auckland profile.