Begoña Jiménez
Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Researcher of the Department of Instrumental Analysis and Environmental Chemistry of the Institute of General Organic Chemistry (IQOG-CSIC) with expertise in persistent organic pollutants, persistent bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals, heavy metals and metalloids, evaluation of chemical contaminants in living beings and their environment, non-destructive techniques and ecotoxicology.
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Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): Case studies in the Spanish environment
Chlorinated paraffins in the kitchen
Professor of food chemistry at the University of Hohenheim and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia). He is Vice President of the Society of Nutrition and Food Science and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of NFS Journal.
His research fields cover lipid analysis (by GC/MS), determination of polyhalogenated compounds in food and environmental samples, stable isotope analysis, enantiomer separations and countercurrent chromatography.
Walter Vetter
University of Hohenheim, Germany
Jan Japenga
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
Heavy metal pollution and health risk assessment of agricultural soils in a typical peri-urban area in southeast China
Professor at Zhejiang University. He is retired scientist from Wageningen University & Research. During his career, his activities gradually changed from scientific research (manure problems, heavy metals) to managing a research group which focused on soil environmental quality. He has been involved in research collaboration with Vietnam, Brazil and especially China.
Ian McCarthy
Bangor University, United Kingdom
Reader in the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University. His research interests fall broadly within the fields of physiological and behavioural ecology primarily using fish species as models, although he also works on molluscs (e.g. scallops, mussels, cuttlefish) and crustaceans (e.g. crabs) with focus on: growth and energetics of aquatic animals,
the effects of contaminants on physiology/behaviour and use of chemical tags (isotopes and trace elements) to examine feeding ecology and movement patterns.
Tracking origins and movement patterns of fishes using natural chemical tags
Cláudia Cândida Silva
State University of Amazonas, Brazil
Professor at the State University of Amazonas, she leads the Crowfoot Research Group on X-Ray Methods. She works mainly in the following subjects: crystallography, quantum chemistry, chemometrics, determination of structures of small molecules by X-ray diffraction by monocrystals, X-ray diffraction by polycrystalline samples and X-ray fluorescence.
Are penguin feathers contaminated with heavy metals?
Rivelino Martins Cavalcante
Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Professor at the Federal University of Ceará. He has experience in the area of Environmental Quality, Chemical Oceanography, Environmental and Analytical Chemistry. He mainly works on the following topics: air pollution, air quality, sorption processes applied to environmental studies, development of analytical methods, analytical quality control, environmental impact assessment and environmental diagnosis.
Classic and emerging organic contaminants revealing new sources of contamination in the semi-arid region in Northeastern Brazil.
Specialist in the research Center for Toxic Compounds in the Environment. She is dedicated to the study of environmental chemistry aiming to understand the presence, behavior and effects of POPs and emerging compounds in different environmental matrices (biotic and abiotic matrices). Her research has focused on documenting and interpreting the levels of POPs in different environments in Chile, including remote areas such as Antarctica.
Karla Pozo
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
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Alexandra Pinho
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Round table discussion - Glyphosate contamination
Professor of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. She has experience in the area of Pollution and Environmental Restoration, working mainly on the following topics: recovery of degraded areas, phytoremediation, transport of pollutants, contamination and conservation of water resources, environmental biophysics, community and population dynamics.
Speakers
The workshop will provide unique opportunities for high quality scientific debate between Brazilian and foreign researchers. Discussions will be based on recent research on new techniques for identification and analysis of pollutants dynamics.
​Opening ceremony – Celebration of the Laboratório de Radioisótopos Eduardo Penna Franca’s Brilliant Jubilee: 60 years of history and challenges for the next 60 years
Professor of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), head of the Laboratory of Radioisotopes Eduardo Penna Franca (LREPF) and former Director of the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho of UFRJ. His experience has emphasized Environmental and Human Contamination by Heavy Metals and Persistent Organic Micropollutants, acting mainly in aquatic environments but with special attention in the access routes of micropollutants to humans.
Professor of UFRJ, researcher of LREPF and head of the environmental biophysics program of Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho. He has experience in the field of Biophysics, with emphasis on ecotoxicology, working mainly on the following topics: environmental pollution, POPs, DDT, PCBs, organochlorines and environmental contamination.
Opening ceremony – Celebration of the Laboratório de Radioisótopos Eduardo Penna Franca’s Brilliant Jubilee: 60 years of history and challenges for the next 60 years
João Paulo Machado Torres
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paulo Dorneles
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Stable isotopes of C, N and S, trace elements, bone microchemistry and pollutant profiles of aquatic vertebrates from Brazilian and Antarctic environments as tools for feeding ecology and habitat use
Professor of UFRJ. He is a master's and doctoral supervisor of the Graduate Courses in Biotechnology of INMETRO and in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) of IBCCF-UFRJ. He is also a reviewer of scientific journals as Environmental Science & Technology, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, Marine Pollution Bulletin and Plos One.
Professor at UFRJ and associate researcher of LREPF. He has experience in Environmental Biophysics, with emphasis on pollution ecology, working mainly on the following topics: transportation of persistent toxic substances in tropical systems, POPs, mercury, PCBs and use of passive samplers as an environmental monitoring technique.
Spatial and temporal trends of semivolatile organic pollutants in urban and suburban air – Southeast Brazil
Rodrigo Ornellas Meire
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fernanda Abadio Finco
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
EcoNutrition: Integrating health and environment towards sustainability
She is a researcher at the Laboratório de Radioisótopos Eduardo Penna Franca, UFRJ. Her research projects cover different techniques from the areas of food science, biochemistry and nutrition. Her main research fields includes: Nutritional Biochemistry with emphasis to Bioactive compounds and Molecular Nutrition, Traditional Brazilian Foods, Fishery, Organic pollutants, Biodiversity.
Ricardo Barra
University of Concepción, Chile
Environmental Pollutants in Chile: What we have learned?
Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences/EULA. His areas of specialization are environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology and regulatory issues. He has been working in different areas in the field of environmental chemistry and toxicology, mainly in the field of environmental fate and effects of Persistent Organic Pollutants, emerging contaminants and mercury compounds.
Pedro Santos
Cauaburis River and Tributaries Yanomami Association and Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil
The Urihi Yanomami Temɨõrẽwë / Yanomami Healthy Forest and Well-Being Program: overview and first results of environmental pollution research at the Yanomami Indigenous Land, Brazilian Amazon
A biologist focusing on the ecology, use and management of Amazon wildlife.
Rainer Lohmann
University of Rhode Island, USA
Cycling of POPs in the Antarctic biota and environment
Professor of University of Rhode Island, he teaches courses related to marine and environmental chemistry. His researches are related to: sources, transport and fate of organic contaminants (e.g. PAHs, PCBs, Dioxins) in coastal waters, atmospheric deposition, air-water exchange and availability of sedimentary organic contaminants.
Tomaz Langenbach
UFRJ and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Retired professor at UFRJ and visiting professor at PUC-Rio. He has extensive experience in biodegradation / persistence of molecules. His main research area is environmental microbiology, in particular studies on the distribution and degradation of pesticides aiming to a better understanding of the processes that determine the dynamics of pesticides in the environment.
How to Reduce Pesticide Airborne
Catherine Munschy
Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, France
Contamination levels and temporal trends of selected emerging pollutants in the marine environment
She is a permanent researcher at the Laboratory of Biogeochemistry of Organic Contaminants at IFREMER. She is conducting her research on the fate of persistent organic contaminants in the marine environment, focusing on marine organisms. More specifically over the last 10 years, she has been working on the levels and trends of emerging contaminants in the French coastal environment.
Jean Remy Davée Guimarães
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
He has experience in Ecology, with emphasis in Applied Ecology, working mainly on the following topics: biogeochemical of metallic and organometallic pollutants in soils and aquatic environments, use of tracers in environmental process studies. He also works in scientific communication, as editor and author of Ciência Hoje and Ciência Hoje das Crianças and columnist on the CHOnline website.
Osmar Damian Prestes
Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
Round table discussion - Glyphosate contamination
Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria and supervisor of the Graduate Program in Chemistry. Conducts research on the analysis of residues of pesticides and veterinary drugs in foods such as fruits, vegetables, cereals, meat, milk, eggs using gas chromatography and liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS e UHPLC-MS/MS).
Admir Créso Targino
Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil
Professor of undergraduate and graduate courses in Environmental Engineering at the Federal University of Technology of Paraná and the Graduate Program in Civil Engineering at Dalhousie University (Canada). He conducts research in the following areas: meteorology, atmospheric chemistry and pollution control.
Nicolas Sturaro
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Using amino acid stable isotopes to estimate trophic position
Researcher in the Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University. His research interest is focused on three main areas: the taxonomy and population ecology of benthic macrofauna, the monitoring and assessment of marine protected areas and the application of stable isotopes in trophic ecology. He uses stable isotopes to delineate trophic interactions and has applied this methodology on diverse taxa (crustaceans, corals, fishes and crocodilians) and a variety of ecosystems (marine and freshwater) in temperate and tropical areas.
Stable isotopes as markers of Hg origin in mining areas in the Amazon and Andes
Fine particles, black carbon and other uninvited guests in the air we breath
Tatiana Lemos Bisi
Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and researcher at the Aquatic Mammal and Bioindicator Laboratory Prof. Izabel Gurgel. She has experience in Trophic Ecology and Ecotoxicology, working mainly in the following subjects: trophic relations, bioaccumulation of heavy metals and persistent toxic substances, aquatic mammals, stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen, interaction between nectonic organisms and environmental parameters and conservation.
Persistent organic pollutants and mercury in commercial fish species
Roland Weber
POPs Environmental Consulting, Germany
He is working since 2003 as an independent international consultant mainly for UN Organisations (UNEP, UNIDO, UNDP) and environmental ministries on the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). His areas of particular expertise include dioxins, other unintentionally produced POPs and brominated and fluorinated POPs and POPs-like chemicals. He is author/co-author of several technical guidances for the Stockholm Convention.
Environmental contamination by Persistent Organic Pollurants (POPs) and food security
Tatiane Combi
University of São Paulo, Brazil
She has experience in the field of marine pollution, with participation in several projects involving the determination of POPs, mainly organochlorine contaminants, and emerging contaminants in marine environments.
Personal care products (PCPs) in marine and coastal areas: presence, fate and challenges ahead
Victorine Pinas
Anton De Kom University, Suriname
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Suriname inventory report of PFOS & related substances and other fluorinated substances such as PFAS “The beauty and dirty beasts”