Faculty Member in the Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences
Faculty of the Toxicology Center
Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Michigan State University
Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Dr. John Giesy - was born in Youngstown Ohio, but lived most of his life in the state of Michigan. He obtained a BSc Degree, Summa cum laude with honors in Biology and a Masters and Doctor of Philosophy Degrees in Limnology from Michigan State University (MSU). He was affiliated with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and a faculty member in the Institute of Ecology and Department of Zoology at the University of Georgia. Until 2006, he was Distinguished Professor of Zoology at MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, where he was also a Professor of Veterinary Medicine and on the faculties of the Center for Integrative Toxicology and National Food Safety and Toxicology Center.
Dr. Giesy is a Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department Biology & Chemistry, at City University of Hong Kong, Concurrent Professor of Environmental Science at Nanjing University, China, and Honorary Professor of Biology at the University of Hong Kong, and a Guest Professor at Xiamen University, China, Honorary Professor, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China.
In 2010 he was elected to the Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Canada, Division of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Discipline of Earth Sciences. In 2012 he was recognized with the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) as the recipient of the SCOPE-Zhongyu Environmental Sciences Life Achievements Award, Miroslaw Romanowski Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, University of Saskatchewan J.W. George Ivany Internationalization Award and Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Capacity-Building Award.
He is one of the world’s leading experts on the chemistry and toxicity of organic compounds, such as the PAHs and related compounds in the Athabasca.
He has received over one hundred million dollars from local, state, federal, and international agencies and organizations to conduct his research, which has resulted in the publication of 983 books and book chapters and journal articles and 1,442 lectures, world‑wide.