I coordinate the transdisciplinary Horizon Europe project Butterfly on pollinator stewardship in view of the cascading impacts of pollinator decline.

For a topical list of publications see my Google Scholar profile

• Public lecture: Urgent decisions in uncertain times, the case of global insect decline. Collaboration with the Bergen Society for the Advancement of Science (Selskapet til Vitenskapenes Fremme). See PowerPoint slides here. 10.05.23
• Op-ed in Norwegian daily Stavanger Aftenblad with Anne Jorunn Frøyen, PhD and authorized conservator at Jærmuseet: Heller føre var enn etter snar - bruk ikkje gift mot løvetann! (Better safe than sorry - don't use poison against the daffodil!) 12.04.23
• Interviewed about bee decline in the film The Bee Battle by Norwegian film production company Tempo Film (Norwegian audio with English subs) 20.03.2023
• Interview in Forskningspolitikk ("Research Policy" - an open and independent Norwegian magazine for analysis and debate on research and innovation): Å kuratere kunnskap for ei ny tid (Curating knowledge for a new age) - 13.06.22
• Op-ed in forskning.no (website for Norwegian and international research news): Forskere må ta ansvar for å stanse den globale biedøden (Researchers must assume responsibility for halting the global bee decline - based on the following article) - 27.10.21.
• -> Response to the op-ed: Må forskere ta ansvar for å stanse biedøden? (Must researchers assume responsibility to halt the bee decline?) Anders Nielsen, 09.11.21
• Online open course in Knowledge Quality Assessment (hint: click the blue [+] in front of each main lesson to see sub-lessons)
• How can we make good decisions when experts lack the answers? (uib.no, 17.04.2020)
• EU Ban on Neonics: Too Little, Too Late (invited opinion article in Green European Journal, 19.12.2018)
• Interview in Morgenbladet on Post Normal Science: Fakta, faen (in Norwegian) (23.09.2016)
• Putting scientific facts under the magnifying glass (uib.no, 21.06.2016)
• Pollinators and Global Food Security: the Need for Holistic Global Stewardship (Food Ethics, 09.05.2016)
• Professor van der Sluijs number 25 on top 100 list (article in Dutch) (13.10.2015)
• We live in times of science on demand: an interview with Jeroen van der Sluijs (originally published in the Dutch Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth) magazine, June 2014)
• Uncertainty and Dissent in Climate Risk Assessment: A Post-Normal Perspective (Nature and Culture, 2012)
• Room for climate debate: Perspectives on the interaction between climate politics, science and the media (Rathenau Institutt, 2010)

Coordinator of the PhD course “Theory of Science and Ethics” for all PhDs in the Fac. of Mathematics & Natural Science, University of Bergen:

MNF990 Theory of Science and Ethics (formerly known as MNF490!)

Supervisor and assessor of MSc Thesis projects of UiB's Master's program Sustainability

For a topical list of publications see my Google Scholar profile

Selected publications:

I guest-edited a special issue of Current Opinion in Insect Science on 'Pollinator decline:  human and policy dimensions', and a special issue of Frontiers of Climate on 'What is high quality knowledge for climate adaptation?'.

• Lo Piano, S., Lőrincz, M. J., Puy, A., Pye, S., Saltelli, A., Smith, S. T., & van der Sluijs, J. (2024). Unpacking the modeling process for energy policy making. Risk Analysis, 44(6), 1273-1284.
• Saltelli, A., Kuc-Czarnecka, M., Piano, S. L., Lőrincz, M. J., Olczyk, M., Puy, A., ... & van der Sluijs, J. P. (2023). Impact assessment culture in the European Union. Time for something new?. Environmental Science & Policy, 142, 99-111.
• RECIPES consortium (2022) Guidance for future application of the precautionary principle
• Bremer, S., Bremer, A., Iversen, L., Soares, M. B., & van der Sluijs, J. (2022). Recognising the social functions of climate services in Bergen, Norway. Climate Services, 27, 100305.
• Drivdal L & Van der Sluijs, JP (2021) Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle. Current opinion in insect science.
• Van der Sluijs, JP (2020) Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Altmetric: 360. Highest-scoring output from this source (#1 of 962)
• Saltelli A, Benini L, Funtowicz S, Giampietro M, Kaiser M, Reinert E, van der Sluijs JP (2020) The technique is never neutral. How methodological choices condition the generation of narratives for sustainability. Environmental Science & Policy, 106, 87-98 [112x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric:45
• Bremer S, Wardekker A, Dessai S, Sobolowski S, Slaattelid R, van der Sluijs JP (2019) Toward a multi-faceted conception of co-production of climate services. Climate Services doi: 10.1016/j.cliser.2019.01.003. [179x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric:23
• Maxim L & van der Sluijs JP (2018) Quality of epidemiological studies: Procedural rules for uncertain science for policy. Environmental Science & Policy 84: 80–87.
• van der Sluijs JP et al. (30 authors) (2015) Conclusions of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment on the risks of neonicotinoids and fipronil to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, Environmental Science and Pollution Research 22 (1) 148-154. [368x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric: 74
• Chagnon M, Kreutzweiser D, Mitchell EAD, Morrissey CA, Noome DA, van der Sluijs JP (2015) Risks of large scale use of systemic insecticides to ecosystem functioning and services, Environmental Science and Pollution Research 22 (1) 119-134. [ ISI Highly Cited Paper; 565x Google Scholar] Altmetric:110
• van der Sluijs JP, Delso NS, Goulson D, Maxim L, Bonmatin JM, Belzunces LP (2013) Neonicotinoids, bee disorders and the sustainability of pollinator services, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5: 293-305. [ISI Highly Cited Paper; 621x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric:140
• van Dijk TC, van Staalduinen MA, van der Sluijs JP (2013) Macro-invertebrate decline in surface water polluted with imidacloprid. PLOS ONE, 8(5): e62374. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062374 [482x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric:213; Covered in international media, the Guardian, Le Monde
• Petersen AC, Cath A, Hage M, Kunseler E, & van der Sluijs JP (2011) Post-Normal Science in Practice at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Science Technology & Human Values, 36 (3) 362-388 [153x cited Google Scholar] Altmetric:3
• Maxim L & van der Sluijs JP (2011) Quality in environmental science for policy: Assessing uncertainty as a component of policy analysis. Environmental Science & Policy 14:482-492. [168x Google Scholar]

Overview of publications in Cristin:

I have long-standing experience in various leading roles in transdisciplinary international research projects, including 13 different EU projects funded under FP5, FP6, FP7 and H2020.

Current projects:

Pesti-Sci Controversy in carcinogenicity expertise: capturing agrochemical modes of action in publicresearch, industrial testing and regulatory science (Institut National du Cancer, France)

PI of Utrecht University team in SeMPER-Arctic: SeMPER-Arctic - Sense Making, Place attachment, and Extended networks as sources of Resilience in the Arctic (The Belmont Forum) [2020-2024]

Finalized projects:

PI of BeeCaution Bees pesticides and precaution: building an epistemic network in Norway (The Research Council of Norway) [2020-2022]

PI of Bergen team in RECIPES REconciling sCience, Innovation and Precaution through the Engagement of Stakeholders (H2020 Swafs) [2019-2022]

PI of Bergen team in CoCliServ Co-development of place-based climate services for action (JPI Climate ERA 4CS) [2017-2020] (Spin-off of UC4A!)

Go Figure: Visualizing Climate Change (FIGO) (SAMKUL Researcher Network)

Partner in PARENT, Participatory platform for sustainable energy management (EU JPI Urban Europe) [March 2016 - February 2019]

Mainstreaming Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Auditing (Peder Sather Grant) [July 2017 - June 2018] (with Philip Stark, UC Berkeley; Andrea Saltelli UiB and Leif Hellevik, NTNU)

HEIRRI Higher Education Institutions & Responsible Research and Innovation (H2020) [2015-2018]

PI of UC4A [Understanding Cultural Conditions for Climate Change Adaptation] (SAMKUL Researcher Network, Norwegian Research Council) [2015-2016]

ELSA of SALMOSTERILE (The Research Council of Norway) [2013-2018]

EPINET (FP7) [2012-2015]

Scientific coordinator on the IUCN international Task Force on Systemic Pesticides (Triodos Foundation) [2011-2013]