Rate My Professor Jonathan Benskin

Benskin’s research investigates the identification, transformation, and environmental fate of organic contaminants, emphasizing PFAS. His group develops high-resolution mass spectrometry methods for non-target and suspect screening in human biofluids, wildlife tissues, and wastewater sludge, collaborating with the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Swedish Food Agency, and Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. They perform fluorine mass balance studies using combustion ion chromatography, uncovering substantial unidentified organofluorine in marine mammal blubber, groundwater, and consumer products. Additional efforts track PFAS uptake in vegetables and fungi, biotransformation in sediments, and temporal trends in human serum, milk, and wildlife. Notable publications include “Pharmaceuticals Account for a Significant Proportion of the Extractable Organic Fluorine in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge” by Seilitz et al., “Temporal trends of suspect- and target-per/polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), extractable organic fluorine (EOF) and total fluorine (TF) in pooled serum from first-time mothers in Uppsala, Sweden, 1996–2017” by Miaz et al., and “Fluorine Mass Balance and Suspect Screening in Marine Mammals from the Northern Hemisphere” by Spaan et al. As Assistant Coordinator of the PERFORCE3 Marie Curie Innovative Training Network, he has advanced PFAS research and European policy.