Plenary & Keynote speakers

“Unlocking Large Biomolecules in Wastewater Based Epidemiology (WBE): Insights into Public Health and Industrial Activity Signatures”

Damià Barceló

Chemistry and Physics Department, University of Almeria,  Almería (Spain)

“Sustainable wastewater engineering: Myths, perceptions, perspectives and advances”

Dionissios Mantzavinos

University of Patras, Department of Chemical Engineering, Patras (Greece)

“Fluorescence Imaging for the Progression of Oxidative Stress-Related Diseases”

Bo Tang

Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, and Shandong Normal University, Jinan, (China)

“The role of bioeconomy in the restoration of degraded lands and seas”

Fabio Fava 

Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna (Italy)

“Plant-microbe based remediation and phytomanagement of polluted soils and groundwater: Lessons from field trials”

Jaco Vangronsveld

Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University (Belgium)

“Merits and Limitations of Various Advanced Oxidation Processes for PFAS Degradation”

Pedro Alvarez

Rice WaTER Institute, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University (USA)

“Biosensors for environmental monitoring: practice and challenges”

Xian-En Zhang

Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, and Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

“Fate of airborne ultrafine particles and microfibers in the human respiratory tract and transport to the olfactory region”

Mihalis Lazaridis 

Dept of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete (Greece)

“Tackling emerging contaminants and pharma wastewater - the METFILTER solution”

Abraham Esteve Núñez

Chemical Engineering Department, University of Alcalá, Madrid (Spain)

“PFAS in the Soil-Plant Ecosystem”

Jay Gan

Dept of Environmental Sciences, University of California Riverside (USA)

“Molecular Design of Polymer Materials for Capture of PFAS from Aqueous Media”

Paschalis Alexandridis

Dept of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo (SUNY) (USA)

“Removing aquaculture-related organic contaminants using marine sponges: Kinetics and mechanistic insights”

Manolis Mandalakis

Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete (Greece)

“N-Containing Organics Aerosol Formation by an on-line VACES”

Jianmin Chen

Dept of Environmental Science and Technology, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai (China)

“Breaking down boundaries: the enzymatic degradation of designer polymers”

Patrick Shahgaldian

Institute of Chemistry and Bioanalytics, School of Life Sciences, FHNW (Switzerland)

“SOIL-OMIC^® in situ soil treatment: the case of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals”

Simona Di Gregorio

Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy)

“Understanding the Cell Signaling Dynamics by Creating Redox Cell Models”

Bing Yan

Institute of Environmental Research at the Greater Bay Area, Guangzhou University (China)

“Remediation of effluents from mining and metallurgical activities: challenges and opportunities”

Georgios Kolliopoulos

Dept of Mining, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering, Université Laval, Québec City (Canada)

“Fate of (bio)plastics in the natural environment” 

Evdokia (Evi) Syranidou 

Dept of Chemical Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol (Cyprus)

and School of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, TU-Crete, Chania (Greece)

“Focusing on micro- to enhance the macro-scale (electro)bioremediation of oily wastewater”

Argyro (Iro) Tsipa

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Nireas International Water Research Center, Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia (Cyprus)