Tentative title "Bryophytes as biomonitors – from laboratory research to field application”

Marko S. Sabovljević is a bryophyte biologist deling with all aspects of bryophyte scince both in the field and laboratory. He graduated in University of Belgrade (Serbia) in 2000 and received PhD in University of Bonn (Germany). He is a full time professor at Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade and he is also teaching in the University in Košice (Slovakia). Since 2020 he is also full research professor/prinicpal research fellow in the Center of Plant Biotechnology and Conservation in Belgrade. During 25 years long academic carrier, he published over 570 peer reviewed papers. His Scholar H-index is 43. He founded Bryophyte Biology School in Belgrade and a collection of over 300 species of axenic in vitro bryophyte cultures from all over the world. He is an Editor in Chief of Comprehensive Plant Biology and member of editorial boards/section editor of additional 9 international journals and active reviewer in additional 94 international journals.

More info: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marko-Sabovljevic

Jörg Feldmann

3rd day:

Tentative title "Understanding the bioaccumulation and transformation of PFAS – the forever chemicals – in the marine and the terrestrial environment."

Jörg Feldmann has the chair of analytical chemistry at the University of Graz (Austria) since 2020 and head of the institute of chemistry since 2024. He has been educated at the University of Duisburg-Essen as Chemist and did his Master thesis in Geochemistry at Chamber of Mines in South Africa, before he graduated with a PhD in environmental analytical chemistry in 1995. Then he was a Feodor Lynen Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at UBC and U Alberta (Canada) in environmental and clinical chemistry. Subsequently he spent 23 years as a professor for environmental chemistry and director of TESLA (trace element speciation laboratory) at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is an elected fellow of the Scottish Academy of Science and Society (FRSE) and a fellow of the RSC. He has written more than 350 peer reviewed papers (Scholar h-index 78) and received numerous prizes such as the European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry and the RSC Interdisciplinary Prize and Medal. Under his supervision more than 50 PhD students have graduated. His main interest is in the development of new methodology and its application for the elements, arsenic, mercury, selenium and lately zinc. Lately fluorinated pesticides and pharmaceuticals and PFAS have been a focus of his work in biomonitoring studies.

More info: https://analytische-chemie.uni-graz.at/de/forschung/tesla/

Invited speakers

Marta Segura Roux

1st day:

Tentative title "Metal concentration in moss in comparison to deposition and air particles PM10 measured at EMEP background stations, Sweden."

Marta Segura Roux has a PhD in analytical chemistry (2004) from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). She is a senior scientist and project manager who works in IVL, Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden with robust methods for air quality monitoring (PM10, PM2,5, metals, REE and gases). Chemist experience and research especially on metal environmental monitoring, including different aspects of air-related issues such as emissions, air quality, rainwater quality and biomonitoring of metals with moss samples. Responsible for development of IVLs diffusive samplers for air monitoring. Marta also has experience of support and line leader of metal analysis by using ICP-MS, ICP-OES, AAS and AFS when she was working at PerkinElmer.

More info: https://linkedin.com/in/marta-segura-roux-ab920074

Stefano Loppi

Tentative title "Biomonitoring with moss and lichen: issues for consideration"

Stefano Loppi is Full Professor of Environmental and Applied Botany at the Department of Life Sciences, the University of Siena, Italy. The research activity is focused on the biological effects of environmental changes caused by natural or human-induced stress, particularly the impact of pollutants on sensitive organisms (bioindicators) such as mosses and lichens. Scientific coordinator of research projects. Member of the editorial boards of international journals. Reviewer for international journals as well as national and international research programs. Coordinator of Erasmus programs. Former President of the Italian Lichen Society; former member of the Steering Committee of the Foundation for Climate and Sustainability; former

member of the Steering Committee of BioMAP (Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution). Coordinator of the working group for Lichenology of the Italian Botanical Society. President of the Committee for Quality Assurance of the University of Siena. Author of more than 250 scientific papers in international journals (Scopus h-index 41). Included in the list of top Italian scientists of ViaAcademy and in the list of top world scientists of Stanford University.

More info: https://docenti.unisi.it/en/loppi

Stefan Jurjanz

Tentative title "Food of animal origin as a bioindicator of exposure to environmental pollutants."

Stefan Jurjanz is a senior researcher at the University Lorraine in Nancy (France) working on the exposure of animas to environmental pollutants, especially persistent organic pollutants. After Engineer studies at the University of Leipzig (Germany), he graduated with a PhD in Agronomical Sciences in 2001 and with the Habilitation thesis in 2018. He is senior lecturer for all topics around animal rearing systems, feeding and breeding of farm animals and strongly involved in the development of local breeds in East France. By the way, he is in charge of the international relationships developing partnerships in Europe, but also on other continents (Kazakhstan, West Africa, South America). He investigated the exposure of food producing animals via the intake of contaminated environmental matters, especially soil, but also vegetation or water. Approaches have been developed to quantify these risk factors for numerous species of farm animals. Moreover, he is studying the bioavailability of these contaminants in such matters by approaches in vivo and in vitro. He worked as expert for different national establishments as the French Food Safety Agency Anses or the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Kazakhstan, but also for authorities in charge of crisis management, especially in the French West Indies. He supervised PhD students in France and in Kazakhstan. He produced over 60 JCR articles (h index 17) and over 100 communications.

More info: https://l2a.univ-lorraine.fr/