Dr Jürg Oliver Straub, born 1954, is a Swiss biologist who started work in Environmental Protection at F.Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd in Basle in 1987. From 1998, he was the Environmental Risk Assessor in Roche Group SHE, with the responsibility of conducting environmental risk assessments (ERAs) for Roche pharmaceuticals, besides investigating environmental issues for pharma production, until his retirement in 2019. On behalf of Roche, Oliver participated in national and international advisory groups and research programmes on the fate, effects and risks of pharmaceuticals in the environment from 1999 to 2023 (ECETOC, BE; Swiss Experts' Commission for Ecotoxicology, CH; ERAPharm, EU; START,DE; NoMiracle, EU; PHARMAS, EU; TransRisk, DE; EFPIA Working Group on Pharmaceuticals in the Environment of EFPIA, EU; iPiE, EU; ChemPop, UK). He is now an independent contractor for pharmaceuticals ERA, with ERA Competence in Allschwil, Switzerland. Oliver is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK), a member of SETAC (BE/USA) and an Honorary Member of the Pessoa Society (NL).