Tom Zoeller, PhD, ED Council
Committed to do well by doing good.
Dr. R. Thomas Zoeller, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is visiting Professor in the School of Science and Technology at the University of Örebro, Sweden. His early training was in molecular neuroendocrinology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD and he has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed papers, contributing to several fields including the neurochemistry of behavior, circadian rhythms, reproductive neuroendocrinology and the role of thyroid hormones in development. Dr. Zoeller’s lab also studied the mechanisms by which environmental endocrine disruptors can interfere with thyroid hormone action in the brain.
Dr. Zoeller was a member of the U.S. EPA's Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee working group on Screening and Testing in the 1990’s. He has served as a chartered member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board and was chair of their Exposure and Human Health Committee reviewing the Computational Toxicology Program.
He has received numerous awards for his work, including the “Scientist of the Year – 2002” from the Learning Disabilities Association, a Samuel F. Conti Award for Research Excellence, and the UMass Chancellor’s Medal for Research Excellence. He has written extensively on issues of Endocrine Disruption and Public Policy and was one of the editors of the State of the Science of Endocrine Disruption published by a joint United Nations/World Health Organization project.