Pollution harms men's fertility, but traffic noise affects women's
The large-scale study linked exposure to air pollution with a higher infertility risk in men, while traffic noise affected women
Mark Green
Associate Professor and Deputy Scientific Director Research at Monash IVF, The University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Mark Green is a reproductive biologist and group leader at the University of Melbourne, the Deputy Scientific Director Research at Monash IVF and a Fellow of the Society for Reproductive Biology. Mark obtained his PhD studying factors that affect early embryo development at the University of Nottingham UK, before undertaking a Life Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Missouri USA. In 2004 he became the inaugural Maurice Paykel Fellow and relocated to The Liggins Institute, University of Auckland NZ. He subsequently held a joint appointment as the first Fertility Associates Research Fellow at The Liggins Institute, University of Auckland and as a Senior Scientist at AgResearch Ltd NZ. In 2011, he took up his current position, as the Merck Serono Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, and now Associate Professor in the School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne. His research centres on improving outcomes of human and animal ART by identifying how endocrine and environmental factors impact gametes and early embryo development, as well as subsequent offspring health. He undertakes this research in a variety of species, including humans, ruminants, rodents and invertebrates.
