My research aims at developing methods for identifying chemicals of environmental and human health concern and to explore their mode of action by combining computational and experimental tools.
Patrik Andersson's research concerns development of methods of identifying chemicals of concern for the environment and human health. In today's society we use a large number of substances in the many products and materials in use. For only a few of these chemicals, we have sufficient data on their risks for humans and the environment. In his research, Patrik Andersson has mainly used computational chemistry tools to develop methods for finding the most harmful substances, but also to avoid and reduce the number of animal experiments. His research group now runs projects focusing on the development of methodology for smart substitution, i.e. ways of replacing harmful chemicals in materials and products combining data for emissions, exposure, and environmental and health effects. My research group is also working to understand how chemicals are taken up and distributed in organisms through the development of PBK models. Projects are making use of the rapid development in artificiell intelligence based methods and natural language processing.
Patrik Andersson's research group is funded by EU and the Swedish Research Councils VR and Formas. He is also an expert for the Land and Environmental Court of Sweden entitled Mark och Miljödomstolen and a board member of the Toxicological Borard of Sweden. Since 2025 he shares his time with IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute where he is leading research in sustainable chemistry and being the director of the Mistra SafeChem project.
I teach courses in environmental chemistry, biophysical chemistry and supervise degree theses.