Since 2018, Camilla Beulker is head of department at the German Environment Agency, responsible for Drinking Water and Swimming Pool Hygiene with six different sections – including international and national policy matters, chemical, microbiological and toxicological laboratories and a technical area for experimental research on pilot scale water treatment.
Camilla Beulker studied biology at the Freie Universität Berlin and urban water management as a postgraduate course at the Technische Universität Berlin. She specialised in limnology and received her PhD in 2000 with a thesis on the role of interstitial organisms in bank filtration processes. For a period of twelve years she worked at the State Laboratory Berlin-Brandenburg as head of the section Environmental Health Protection. There she was responsible for sampling, laboratory analysis and quality management for the legal monitoring of drinking water, swimming and bathing pool water, surface and bathing waters and indoor air. In the last three years, she has focused on the implementation of the drinking water ordinance and the regulation of perfluorinated compounds. She is involved in several committees and is a member of the advisory board of IWW Mühlheim.