Blanka Pophof is a scientific consultant at the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS). She received her diploma in Biology and Ecology of Animals from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, in 1987 and a PhD in Biology from the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1993. She worked for several years as a scientific fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen, Germany. Her research focused on neurobiology and sensory physiology in insects, using predominantly electrophysiological methods. In 2002, she habilitated at the Ludwig-Maximillians University in Munich, where she teached sensory phsyiology until 2018. At the BfS she is currently involved in all aspects of NIR radiation protection concerning biological and health effects of electric, magnetic an electromagnetic fields. Her work is focusing on review of scientific literature, identification of gaps in knowledge and coordination and supervision of research projects aiming to close these gaps. She was also involved in research on electromagnetic fields of mobile communications, electric and magnetic fields of power lines, occupational exposure due to police broadcast (TETRA) and static magnetic fields of MRI. She was appointed as Member of the ICNIRP Scientific Expert Group (SEG) in April 2023.