Professional summary
Research Interests
Dr Singer is a pollution scientist with research interests focused on understanding pollution effects on microbial ecology, ecosystem function and human health. His research frequently has a policy-relevance angle, such as characterising the nature and effects of large-scale pharmaceutical use (e.g., antivirals such as Tamiflu, and antibiotics), during an influenza pandemic (1,2,3,4,5), and the drivers of antibiotic (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) and antifungal (1, 2) resistance in the environment and their implications to ecosystems and human health (1, 2, 3, 4). His research includes national (1, 2) and international studies (1) on the environmental drivers of AMR, their relevance to human health and considerations for policy makers (1).
Dr Singer is active in the field of wastewater epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), which aims to understand human behaviour and health through the analysis of sewage, e.g., pathogen incidence and prevalence, drug compliance. He also actively participates in the debate over the funding models needed for reinvigorating the novel antibiotic pipeline (1, 2, 3).
Brief CV
2001 – Present UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
2014 – Present Editorial Board: PLOS One
2022 – Present PATH-SAFE Science Advisory Group
2021 – Present Animal and Environment AMR Delivery Group for Wales
2018 – Present Honorary Research Fellow. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Department of Parasitology
2020 – Present Member of the Scientific Netork on Antifungal Resistance
2021 – 2023 Chair, Expert Advisory Committee, ACE C215 Next-Generation Wastewater Surveillance
2017 – 2022 Expert Committee: 2020 AMR Benchmark, Access to Medicine Foundation
2018 – 2021 Honorary Senior Research Fellow. School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol
2009 – 2014 Senior Research Associate University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, UK
2008 – 2012 UK Scientific Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee, Dame Sally Davies, Chair.
2008 – 2010 Visiting Lecturer, University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, UK
2005 – 2007 Honorary Lecturer. School of Geography, Earth & Enviro. Science, University of Birmingham
2004 Visiting Lecturer. School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes University.
Qualifications
University of California, Riverside: PhD, Soil and Water Science, 2000
University of California, Berkeley: BA, Anthropology, 1992
University of California, Riverside: PhD, Soil and Water Science, 2000
University of California, Berkeley: BA, Anthropology, 1992