toxicologist
ISCO: 2131. Skills: 86. Essential: 50.
Essential skills
- advise on chemical use reduction
- advise on poisoning incidents
- analytical chemistry
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- apply scientific methods
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- cancer risks
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- gather experimental data
- identify poisons
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- laboratory techniques
- life sciences
- maintain laboratory equipment
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- mix chemicals
- operate open source software
- perform chemical experiments
- perform laboratory tests
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- perform toxicological studies
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- scientific literature
- scientific research methodology
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- toxicology
- use chemical analysis equipment
- work safely with chemicals
- write scientific publications
Supporting skills
- advise on legislative acts
- analyse blood samples
- analyse cell cultures
- analyse environmental data
- apply blended learning
- archive scientific documentation
- assess environmental impact
- assist in clinical trials
- assist police investigations
- biological chemistry
- biology
- collect samples for analysis
- conduct experiments on animals
- conduct research on fauna
- conduct research on flora
- contribute to registration of pharmaceutical products
- control production
- develop patient treatment strategies
- develop pharmaceutical drugs
- develop scientific research protocols
- develop scientific theories
- manage adverse reactions to drugs
- multidisciplinary research
- perform lectures
- pharmacology
- prepare compliance documents
- prepare lesson content
- provide specialist pharmaceutical advice
- provide technical expertise
- public health
- recommend product improvements
- report on environmental issues
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- test samples for pollutants
- troubleshoot cosmetics formula issues
- write research proposals