Todd Anderson, Ph.D.

Research Interests:

Environmental Chemistry and Fate
Analytical Toxicology

Classes:

ENTX 6351 Analytical Toxicology (with Dr. Sun Hee Yim and Dr. Jaclyn Cañas-Carrell)

ENTX 6251 Analytical Toxicology Lab

ENTX 6445 Chemical Fate (with Dr. Jaclyn Cañas-Carrell)

Bio:

Texas Tech Faculty Since 1997

      Todd Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Toxicology and The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech University. His teaching and research focus 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 using invertebrate and vertebrate models.

He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville under the direction of Barbara Walton at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); he did postdoctoral research in pesticide toxicology and fate at Iowa State University with 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), the Barnie E. Rushing, Jr., Faculty Distinguished Research Award (2018), was named an Integrated Scholar (2014) by the Provost, and in 2024 received the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Excellence Award. He was also selected in the inaugural class of Presidential Research Excellence Professors in 2018. Anderson has received his department’s Outstanding Faculty Award (by graduate student vote) 12 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 2021, Anderson was elected Fellow of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (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).

Each year from 2021-2024, Stanford University and Elsevier listed Anderson in the Top 2% of the world's nearly 7 million working scientists for career contributions. 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 226 peer-reviewed journal articles have each been cited over 800 times; 52 of his articles have been cited over 100 times each. He has an h-Index of 68 with > 22,900 citations.

Selected Publications

Kikanme, K., A. Karnjanapiboonwong, R. Angappan, N.M. Dennis, F. Hossain, J.G. Suski, C.J. Salice, and T.A. Anderson. 2025. Maternal transfer and sex-differences in brain bioaccumulation for northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 43:211-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.117399

Fuller, N., J.G. Suski, S. Lanasa, M. Chanov, D. Jones, D. Haskins, K. Quinlan, M. Wigren, J. Hoverman, Y. Choi, L. Lee, M. Sepulveda, G. Lotufo, A. Kennedy, L. May, A. Harmon, T. Biber, N. Melby, D. Moore, K. Chung, P. Key, E. Wirth, and T.A. Anderson. 2024. Chronic toxicity of PFAS-free firefighting foams to aquatic organisms. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 43:2436-2454. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5979

 

LaFond, J., R. Rezes, M. Shojaei, T.A. Anderson, W.A. Jackson, J. Guelfo, and P.B. Hatzinger. 2024. Biotransformation of PFAA precursors by oxygenase-expressing bacteria in AFFF-impacted groundwater and in pure compound studies with 6:2 FTS and EtFOSE. Environmental Science & Technology. 58:13820-13832. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c01931

 

Hossain, F., N.M. Dennis, S. Subbiah, A. Karnjanapiboonwong, J. Guelfo, J.G. Suski, and T.A. Anderson. 2024. Evaluation of the chronic reproductive toxicity of a fluorine-free firefighting foam and a short-chain fluorinated foam to northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 43:211-221. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5765