Bio:

       Todd Anderson’s teaching and research focusses on the movement and analysis of chemical contaminants (pollutants) in the environment. The ultimate objective is to evaluate and better characterize potential exposure of organisms to contaminants. An important set of supporting experiments involve specifically testing for the effects of selected chemicals, mostly using invertebrate models.  He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville under the direction of Dr. Barbara Walton at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); he did postdoctoral research in pesticide toxicology and fate at Iowa State University with Dr. Joel Coats.  In 1996, Anderson received the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Roy F. Weston Award, an award given to a scientist under the age of 35 for contributions made to the field of environmental chemistry.  Dr. Anderson was selected by Sigma Xi as the Southwest Regional Young Investigator for 1999 and 2001 based on his work with chemical contaminants in soil-plant systems.

      At Texas Tech, Anderson has received the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2003), the Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Research Award (2004), was named an Integrated Scholar (2014) by the Provost, and in 2018 received the Barnie E. Rushing, Jr., Faculty Distinguished Research Award.  In addition, he has received his department’s Outstanding Faculty Award (by graduate student vote) 10 times.  In 2005, he was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. In 2022, Anderson was elected Fellow of SETAC. In 2009 and again in 2020, he received the Champion of Women Award for mentoring women scientists from the West Texas - Association for Women in STEAM.

       He was an associate editor for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry from 2002-2015, as well as a past member of the editorial board.  He was an academic editor in environmental science for PeerJ from 2017-2022.  Dr. Anderson is a Board Certified Environmental Scientist (BCES), by eminence, from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists (AAEES).  His collaborative research on the natural occurrence of perchlorate received an editor’s award from Environmental Science & Technology as the Environmental Science Paper of the Year (2005), and was selected as the SERDP Environmental Restoration Research Project of the Year (2007).

       In 2021 and 2022, Anderson was listed (for career contributions) in the top 2% of the world’s nearly 7 million working scientists. Some additional measures of the influence and impact of Anderson’s research can be found in citation metrics using Google Scholar data. Five of his 220 peer-reviewed journal articles have been cited over 800 times; more than 45 of his articles have been cited over 100 times each. He has an h-Index of 66 with > 20,500 total citations.

Selected Publications:

Gharehveran, M.M., A.M. Walus, T.A. Anderson, S. Subbiah, J. Guelfo, M. Frigon, A. Longwell, and J.G. Suski. 2022. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-free aqueous film forming foam formulations: chemical composition and biodegradation in an aerobic environment. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 10(6):e108953.

McDermett, K., T.A. Anderson, W.A. Jackson, and J. Guelfo. 2022. Assessing potential perfluoroalkyl substances trophic transfer to crickets (Acheta domesticus). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 41:2981-2992

Lasee, S., K. McDermett, N. Kumar, J. Guelfo, P. Payton, Z. Yang, and T.A. Anderson. 2022. Targeted analysis and total oxidizable precursor assay of several insecticides for PFAS. Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters. 3:e100067

Hossain, F., N.M. Dennis, S. Subbiah, A. Karnjanapiboonwong, J. Guelfo, J.G. Suski, and T.A. Anderson. 2022. Acute oral toxicity of non-fluorinated firefighting foams to northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 41:2003-2007.