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Marko S. Sabovljević
1st day:
Tentative title "Bryophytes as biomonitors – from laboratory research to field application”
Tentative title "Bryophytes as biomonitors – from laboratory research to field application”
Marko S. Sabovljević is a bryophyte biologist dealing with all aspects of bryophyte science 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/principal 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
Roeland Samson
2nd day:
Tentative title "Magnetic biomonitoring using vascular plants and cryptogams”
Tentative title "Magnetic biomonitoring using vascular plants and cryptogams”
Roeland Samson is a full professor at the Department of Bioscience Engineering, Faculty of Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Actual teaching courses are: Hydrology and meteorology, Botany and Mycology, Ecology, Urban Ecology, Remote Sensing, CityLab 1: The Urban Ecosystem - Conceptual Framework, Urban Green Design and Management. He is a head of the Laboratory of Environmental and Urban Ecology (EUREC-Air), which is focusses on the research topics of huge scientific and social interest: air quality monitoring and its ecological impacts, nature-based solutions for sustainable and ecological cities, and air pollution and human health. To cover these topics, his research includes the use of specific tools, such as enviromagnetic monitoring, citizen science, low-cost sensors for air quality and meteorological monitoring, biomonitoring and modelling. He is also Spokesmen of the Research Group Environmental Ecology and Applied Microbiology (ENdEMIC) and the Laboratory of Environmental and Urban Ecology (EUREC-A). He published over 190 peer reviewed papers. His Scholar H-index is 58.
More info: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/roeland-samson/
Jörg Feldmann
3rd day:
Tentative title "Understanding the bioaccumulation and transformation of PFAS – the forever chemicals – in the marine and the terrestrial environment."
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 - 50 years of moss monitoring."
Tentative title "Metal concentration in moss in comparison to deposition and air particles PM10 measured at EMEP background stations, Sweden - 50 years of moss monitoring."
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
1st day:
Tentative title "Interpreting lichen and moss biomonitoring data: hic sunt leones"
Tentative title "Interpreting lichen and moss biomonitoring data: hic sunt leones"
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
Mark G.M. Aarts
2nd day:
Tentative title "Phytoremediation perspectives: The metal hyperaccumulation phenomenon in N. caerulescens"
Tentative title "Phytoremediation perspectives: The metal hyperaccumulation phenomenon in N. caerulescens"
Mark G.M. Aarts is Professor of Genetics at Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, where he leads the research theme "Genetics of plant adaptation to the abiotic environment." A renowned plant geneticist, his work integrates molecular genetics, natural variation, and eco-physiology to unravel mechanisms of stress tolerance and adaptation, particularly in Arabidopsis thaliana and crop wild relatives. He is President of the Executive Board of the Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC), a €22.3 million national research infrastructure, and contributes to several international research consortia, including projects on phytomining, crop photosynthesis, and phenotyping. His academic career includes visiting appointments in Japan, Belgium, and Australia. Prof. Aarts's research is widely recognized for its innovative contributions to sustainable agriculture and plant resilience in a changing environment. Prof. Aarts has authored over 100 scientific publications and holds multiple patents related to plant biotechnology (Scholar h-index 54).
More info: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5257-0740.
Stefan Jurjanz
3rd day:
Tentative title "Food of animal origin as a bioindicator of exposure to environmental pollutants."
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/
Silvia Lacorte
3rd day:
Tentative title "Birds as biomonitors of legacy and emerging contaminants"
Tentative title "Birds as biomonitors of legacy and emerging contaminants"
Silvia Lacorte is full researcher at the Department of Environmental Chemistry in IDAEA-CSIC (Barcelona, Spain). She holds a Ph.D in Analytical Chemistry (1997). She leads an interdisciplinary research group in the field of analytical and environmental sciences. Her main research interest is to evaluate the presence and impact of organic contaminants (including microplastics) in the environment (water, soil, sediment, biota) with special focus to the protection of wildlife and natural resources. Since 2009 she has been involved in the annual biomonitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants in gull eggs and in other bird species to determine geographical and temporal trends, and eventually to determine main pollution sources. She has published over 200 papers with Scholar H-index of 84.
More info:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Silvia-Lacorte
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KMVAIrQAAAAJ&hl=es
Honorary speaker
Marina V. Frontasyeva
1st day:
Tentative title "Monitoring long term and large scale deposition of air pollutants based on moss analysis: past, present and future of the UNECE ICP Vegetation"
Tentative title "Monitoring long term and large scale deposition of air pollutants based on moss analysis: past, present and future of the UNECE ICP Vegetation"
Marina V. Frontasyeva, Associate Professor, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, currently Advisor to the Director of the Laboratory of Neutron Physics for Applied Research and Innovation, graduate of the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Nuclear Physics of the Physics Faculty of Saratov State University. Since 1977, she has been working at the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics (http://flnph.jinr.ru/en/) in the field of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) at the REGATA radioanalytical complex at the IBR-2 reactor, designed for research in the field of life sciences and materials science. In 1997-2024, she was a member of the International Committee on Activation Analysis (ICAA). From 1997 to 2019, she headed the Department of NAA and Applied Research at the JINR Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, combining her activities with lecturing on nuclear methods of environmental research at the Department of Chemistry of the International University of Nature, Society and Man in Dubna. She has been the leader of numerous international projects coordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Vienna) and the European Union Framework Programmes. From 2014 to 2023, she was the coordinator of the UNECE Vegetation Programme (moss surveys) (https://icpvegetation.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/heavy-metals). M.V. Frontasyeva is known for her research in the field of air pollution biomonitoring (trace elements and radionuclides) and multielement analysis of extraterrestrial materials, medicinal plants, various animal and himan organ. She is the author and co-author of more than 570 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, 25 books and two patents of the Russian Federation. Her h-index is 46.
More info:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marina-Frontasyeva/research
http://www.jinr.ru/posts/jinr-employee-among-top-ten-scientists-of-russia/
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