image: Professor Josef Köhrle is the first Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Endocrinology.
Credit: European Society of Endocrinology
The European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) is delighted to announce that the first Editor-in-Chief of its new journal, Environmental Endocrinology, is Professor Josef Köhrle.
Environmental Endocrinology is the European Society of Endocrinology’s new inter-disciplinary open-access journal publishing high-quality clinical, translational, and basic research on all aspects of environmental impacts on hormone systems in humans and living systems, incorporating the One Health perspective. The launch issue is scheduled for Q2 2025, and submissions are now being welcomed via the Journal’s website.
Jérôme Bertherat, ESE President, said: “I am delighted that Josef will be the first Editor-in-Chief of ESE’s new Environmental Endocrinology journal. He has a deep understanding of environmental endocrinology through his long-term, outstanding research experience, dedication to the field and is highly respected across his wide international network. Josef also has a strong editorial background having served on the boards of several endocrinology and thyroid specialist journals and is particularly experienced in the early life of a new journal having previously served as Senior Editor during the launch of Endocrine Connections.”
Professor Köhrle has been Senior Professor, Molecular Endocrinology at the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany since 2017. Before that he served as Director of this institute from 2002-2017. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and endocrinology from University of Hanover, Germany; and in 1991 was awarded Habilitation for Experimental Endocrinology, Medizinische Hochschule in Hanover.
He has also been active in professional societies throughout his career having served as president of the German Society of Endocrinology (2017-2020) and European Thyroid Association (2006-2008), and currently co-leads ESE’s Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals (EDC) Working Group, is co-chair of the ESE Focus Area in Environmental Endocrinology and is member of the EU Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals (EDC) task force of the Endocrine Society.
Professor Köhrle said: “I am honoured to serve as the first Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Endocrinology, a highly relevant topic of our time and of my personal scientific interest. The launch of this Journal by ESE is highly necessary to advance research in fields where endocrinologists are the experts including endocrine-disrupting chemicals, environmental epidemiology, the impact of climate change on the endocrine system, the relationship between hormones, mobility in urban societies and lifestyle, and environment-mediated interactions between the endocrine system, metabolism and contagious diseases. I look forward to working alongside the editorial board to establish Environmental Endocrinology as the flagship journal for research in this field.”
Helen Gregson, CEO, ESE, said: “We are delighted to welcome Josef as the first Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Endocrinology, the new ESE interdisciplinary, open access journal. His dedication over more than four decades to research endeavours in the field of endocrinology with a focus on thyroid, metabolism, trace elements, environment and endocrine-disrupting chemicals, combined with his strong editorial experience will maximise the Journal’s impact from launch. We look forward to supporting him in building the scientific reputation of Environmental Endocrinology and establishing it as the flagship journal in this highly topical field.”