Scientific Programme

Chairpersons: Gerhard Lammel, Pérola de Vasconcellos and Barend L. van Drooge

• Air pollution: sources and emissions
• Development, application, and evaluation of air quality related models for local to global scales
• Indoor vs outdoor air pollution: challenges and developments in evaluating impacts at different spatial-temporal scales
• Exposure to air pollution: effects on human and environmental health
• Local and remote observations and emerging technologies for monitoring air pollution
• Role of nitrogen‐containing compounds in formation and transformation of ambient aerosols

Chairpersons: Konstantin Kuppe, Carole Bedos and Ulrike Krug

• Detection of pesticides in non-target areas and organisms
• Modelling tools and risk assessment approaches accounting for pesticides airborne transport
• Regulatory needs and perspectives on pesticides short, medium and long-range transport
• Advances in monitoring and sampling protocols for pesticides detection

Chairpersons: Ioannis Katsoyiannis, Urs von Gunten, Stefanie Wieck and Kai Bester

• Advanced oxidation methods for the treatment of wastewater, groundwater, and drinking water
• Adsorption, membranes, and catalysis for wastewater, groundwater, and drinking water treatment
• Desalinization treatments: new developments and applications
• Disinfection by-products – a challenge for science and regulation
• Organic micropollutants in urban waters: emissions, removal, metabolization and chemical transformation

Chairpersons: Dionysios Dionysiou, Teresa Steininger-Mairinger and Davide V. Vione

• Identification of emerging organic contaminants in natural surface waters and wastewaters: new insights, regulatory needs, and knowledge gaps
• Advancements on the detection of plant protection products residues in groundwater and drinking water
• Biotransformation of persistent and emerging organic pollutants: new insights on reaction pathways and mechanisms

Chairpersons: Costas Michael, Popi Karaolia and Vasiliki Beretsou

• Occurrence and fate of biologically active substances in natural and drinking waters
• Antibiotic resistance determinants in environmental matrices: methodological approaches and case studies
• Uptake of biologically active substances and antibiotic resistance agents by edible crops irrigated with reclaimed wastewater.

Chairpersons: Christian Zwiener and Boguslaw Buszewski 

• Developed and emerging treatment technologies for the removal and destruction of PFAS from air, water, soil, and sediments
• Development of more efficient removal and destruction technologies for new generation PFAS
• Recent advances in detection and sensing of PFAS in environmental media
• Biological and bio‐inspired treatment of PFAS in soil and aqueous media
• Advances in transport, fate, and bioaccumulation modelling of legacy and emerging PFAS
• Current regulatory perspectives on PFAS fate and behaviour in the environment

Chairpersons: Slavica Razic and Silvia Lacorte Bruguera

• Advances in the detection, monitoring, and fate of emerging organic contaminants in the environment
• New developments and advances in the application of inductively coupled plasma-based technologies for environmental samples analysis
• New developments of sample treatment procedures and chromatography-based analytical methods
• Advancements, developments, and application of spectroscopy-, X-ray-, and laser-based technologies in the analysis of environmental samples
• Sensors and biosensors for widespread environmental monitoring: qualitative and quantitative methodologies for the biomonitoring of organic pollutants and their metabolites
• Qualitative and quantitative methodologies for the biomonitoring of legacy and emerging contaminants and their metabolites

Chairpersons: Adrian Covaci and Ester Heath

• Advancements in the non-target/suspect screening of chemicals of emerging concern in the environment
• Use of suspect/non-target screening in the identification of transformation/degradation products in environmental, food and human samples
• Advancements in the non-target/suspect screening of chemicals of emerging concern in food, agriculture and health
• Novel techniques in the suspect/non-target screening (e.g. ion-mobility, imaging, DART)
• Data sciences in identification studies using high resolution mass spectrometry
• Environmental forensics using HRMS

Chairpersons: Ralf Kägi and Elena Badetti

• Environmental interactions, fate, and transport of nanomaterials in environmental systems
• Applications of nanomaterials across multiple sectors: inventories and traceability
• Advances in multicomponent nanomaterials: characterization, applications, and environmental behaviour
• Environmental Risk Assessment for nanomaterials: from challenges to solutions
• Recent developments of the safe-by-design approach applied to nanomaterials and nanosystems
• New regulatory perspectives for nanoparticles and nano-systems in a safe-by-design perspective

Chairpersons: Boguslaw Buszewski and Maria Concetta Bruzzoniti

• Metagenomics tools to unravel environmental adverse effects of chemicals on humans and ecosystems
• Environmental epigenetics: short-term and long-term effects of chemical pollutants
• Identifying toxicants’ exposure and response markers by genomic, metabolomic and epigenomic analysis
• Genomic, metabolomic, and epigenomic analysis as tools to investigate toxicants mode of action and effects

Chairpersons: Melanie Kah, Thomas Bucheli and Vladimir Beskoski

• Chemical treatments for in-situ and ex-situ remediation of soil and sediments
• Recent advances in bio-based remediations of contaminated sites
• Beyond the usual suspects: remediation of soil and sediments contaminated by emerging pollutants

Chairpersons: Patrik L. Andersson and Ester Papa

• Artificial intelligence and machine learning in the field of environmental chemistry Artificial intelligence and machine learning in the field of environmental chemistry
• Bayesian networks: applications for environmental risk assessment and management
• In-silico tools (SAR/QSAR) for the evaluation of human health and environmental hazard properties of chemical substances and mixtures
• Computational new approach methods (NAMs) supporting regulatory decision making for chemical safety
• Recent advances and applications in toxicokinetic modelling (PBTK/PBK) to better understand exposure and distribution of chemicals in organisms
• Computational approaches in developing early warning systems for identification of new emerging risk chemicals (NERCs)

Chairpersons: Antonio Marcomini, Carlo Barbante, Silvia Torresan and Eduarda Pereira

• Impacts of climate change on the emission, fate, effects, and impacts of chemicals in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
• Impacts of climate change on emission patterns, degradation chemistry, and partitioning of air pollution
• Multi-stressor ecotoxicology in aquatic ecosystems in a rapidly changing climate
• Changing ocean and marine dynamics in the context of climate change
• Influence of climate change on the fate of persistent organic pollutants and chemicals of emerging concern in the Arctic and Antarctic
• Effects of climate change on humic substances and natural organic matter

Chairpersons: Philippe Garrigue and Silvia Lacorte Bruguera

• Novel methodologies to assess hazard and risk posed by chemical mixtures
• Advances in exposure and bioaccumulation modelling of chemicals and mixtures
• Improving the understanding of uncertainties in risk assessment of environmental pollutants
• Environmental risk assessment of emerging contaminants (chemicals and materials)
• Toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic studies in chemical risk assessment: data collection and model development
• Novel methods and approaches for integrated chemical and ecotoxicological assessment of effluents and natural waters
• New developments in the characterization, testing, and assessment of complex substances (MCS, UVCBs, and MOCS)
• Software tools and methodologies to evaluate the hazard and chemical properties of chemicals

Chairpersons: Roland Kallenborn and Hemda Garelick

• Micro- and nano-plastics in the environment: occurrence, characterization, and fate modelling
• Micro- and nano- plastics: towards the harmonised analysis for monitoring, effect studies, and risk assessment
• Plastics in the terrestrial environment: improving understanding of occurrence and impacts with new analytical tools
• Plastics and oceans: chemical insights
• Alternatives to conventional plastics: developments, challenges, and opportunities
• Micro- and nano-plastics as transport vectors for organic pollutants in the environment

Chairpersons: Henning Friege, Elena Semenzin and Hans-Christian Stolzenberg

• Recycling and resource reuse as tools for efficient circular economy e.g. plastics and biochar
• Recover and reuse of critical technological elements from electric and electronic wastes (e-waste)
• Green and sustainable chemistry strategies for agricultural and food waste biomass valorisation
• Sustainable Chemistry: benefits to society and the environment by complementing future international chemicals management
• Contaminants as challenge in sustainable circular bioeconomy strategies
• Advancement in Life Cycle Inventory modelling: better data and more accurate assessments
• Safe and sustainable by design approach for chemicals, materials, and products
• LCA estimating trade-offs of emerging bio-based resources production and use
• Standardization and harmonization of Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in the chemical industry

Chairpersons: Elisabetta Zendri

• Impact assessment of environmental particulate matter and climatic conditions on outdoor/indoor cultural heritage
• Recent developments and technologies for sustainable conservation and restoration of cultural heritage
• Direct and indirect effects of climate change on outdoor/indoor cultural heritage
• New insights on the influence of indoor conditions on the degradation of cultural heritage

Chairpersons: Martin Scheringer and Fabrizio Passarini

• IPCP (International Panel on Chemical Pollution): bridging science, policy, and management
• Developments and applications of regulatory risk assessment for pesticides
• Zero Pollution action plan and Chemical Strategy for Sustainability: new developments in the EU regulatory context
• Plastic pollution: new developments on management and communication in a regulatory context
• Air pollution in urban areas: advances and policy implications
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in frameworks for policymaking: different scales of assessment, data sources, and policy uses

Chairpersons: Ivana Ivančev-Tumbas and Gerhard Lammel  

• The role of environmental chemistry in environmental science: from bachelor to Ph.D. programs
• Training in environmental chemistry in the context of environmental resources management
• Challenges in integrating environmental chemistry within chemistry and non-chemistry oriented programmes
• New teaching and learning methods: lessons learned and perspectives

Chairpersons: Michael Neumann, Thorsten Reemtsma, Hans Peter Arp and Anna Lennquist

• Case studies of emerging PMT/vPvM substances: analytics, biomonitoring, modelling, biomarkers and detection
• New perspectives and developments in the regulatory context of PMT/vPvM substances
• New assessment tools for assessing transport, toxicity, persistency and mobility
• Novel management strategies for PMT/vPvM substances: alternatives assessment, emission reduction, water treatment

Chairpersons: Roberto Terzano and Claudio Zaccone

• NOM/HS structure, chemistry and analytics
• Role of NOM/HS in the transport and stabilization of chemicals in soil, sediments, waters and atmosphere
• NOM/HS in soil and sediments remediation
• NOM/HS and environmental quality of water and soil
• Interaction of NOM/HS with living organisms

Chairpersons: Fani Sakellariadou and Loris Calgaro

• Combination of chemical monitoring and environmental modelling to assess ecosystem exposure in water systems
• Novel approaches for estimating chemical emissions and impacts to ports and other coastal areas due to anthropogenic pressures (e.g. shipping, climate change)
• Integrating data from different domains (e.g. chemistry, ecotoxicology) to assess risks and impacts of chemical pollution in marine, transitional, and coastal areas