FTEvents2011 - Key Speakers

Key-Speakers and Plenary Lectures

(in alphabetic order)

Prof. Triantafyllos A.D. Albanis, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece:

Concentration levels of pesticides with endocrine disruptive activity in environment and food products in Europe

Dr. Paula Alvito, Food and Nutrition Department, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Portugal:

Occurrence and infant exposure assessment of chemical contaminants in baby foods

Prof. Carmen Camara and Dr. Jon Sanz Landaluze, Faculty of Chemistry of the Complutense University, Spain:

New trends on bioaccumulation of persistent and emergent organic pollutants: beyond a simple number

Prof. Jana Hajšlová, Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic

Perfluorinated compounds in the environment and food

Dr. Karoly Heberger, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary:

Evaluation of models predicting retention indices for polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons. Comparison of methods based on sum of ranking differences and pair-correlation

Dr. Marchela E. Pandelova, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Ecological Chemistry, Neuherberg, Germany:

Potential ligands for nuclear receptors: biological and chemical testing of commercial baby foods

Prof. Dr. Mira Petrović, Catalan Institute for Water Studies, Spain:

Advanced mass spectrometric methods applied to the study of fate and removal of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment

Prof. Dr. Karl-Werner Schramm, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Ecological Chemistry, Neuherberg, Germany:

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin (PCDD), polychlorinated dibenzofuran (PCDF) and PCB levels in biotic and abiotic matrices

Prof. Dr. Trajče Stafilov, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of Macedonia

Speciation analysis of arsenic in beverages and food by atomic absorption spectrometric techniques

Prof. Dr. Csaba Vagvolgyi, University of Szeged, Hungary:

Microbial degradation of pesticides in the environment

About the speakers:

Prof. Triantafyllos A.D. Albanis is internationally highly recognized scientist in the field of environmental chemistry of pesticides and related organic micro-pollutants, development of analytical methods for their determination in environmental compartments and techniques for removal of organic micro pollutants from wastewater, surface and ground waters. His envious list of references includes more than 170 publications, with 2937 citations. He is a Rector of the University of Ioannina, Greece, member of Greek and American Chemical Society and different national and international scientific committees.

Dr. Paula Alvito is a research scientist in the field of the detection of marine toxins and associated bacteria and is coordinating studies concerning the occurrence of chemical contaminants in baby foods (mycotoxins, heavy metals and nitrates), bioavailability of food contaminants and risk assessment of mycotoxins in food, at the Food and Nutrition Department of the National Institute Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Portugal. She is involved in several international projects and coordinates training activities with several Portuguese Universities in the area of food safety, integrates the Portuguese Environment and Health Action Plan 2007-2013 in the area of food contaminants and the Portuguese Group responsible for the analysis of GMO notifications in the area of toxicology.

Prof. Carmen Camara is full professor of analytical chemistry at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. Her main research interest is focused on the development of new analytical methods for trace metal speciation, emergent contaminants, bioaccumulation studies of trace metals and organic compounds in zebra fish embryo, proteomics and other topics related with a wide variety of samples. She has coordinated more than six European and several National projects and also participated in numerous European projects. Carmen Cámara has extensive experience within quality assurance, development of validation methodologies and the use of hyphenated techniques, among others. Her publication record is significant, including papers in international journals and several book chapters. She has also been, from 2005 to 2009, the president of the Spanish Analytical Chemistry Society.

Prof. Jana Hajšlová is full professor and a head of Accredited Laboratory for analysis of food and environmental contaminants, toxicants and biologically active compounds at the Department of Food Chemistry and Analysis at Institute of Chemical Technology. Her research interests focus on the fate of contaminants and toxicants in food chains and issues related to the implementation of novel strategies for their analysis. Her international memberships are prestigious: program committee “Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology” EU 7th Framework program, Advisory Group ”Food Quality and Safety”, EU 6th Framework program, EU Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks, SCENIHR (Health & Consumer Protection DG), member of International Editorial Board - Journal of Food Additives and Contaminants, WHO National contact point for Global Environmental Monitoring Programme (GEMS/Food EURO). Prof. J. Hajšlová has participated in many international research projects, e.g. CONffIDENCE, TRUEFOOD, BIOCOP, TRACE, HEATOX, FIRE, COST actions 629, 924, 926, 927, 636, etc. She has published widely on organic contaminants and food.

Dr. Károly Héberger is a leading Hungarian chemometrician, who is also internationally well recognized with contribution in the field of applied chemometrics in analytical chemistry, environmental pollution and food quality/safety domains. He is an author of several reviews on important issues within the chemometrics and also a coauthor of numerous peer-reviewed articles and delivered more than 260 lectures or posters. His papers were cited more than 1500 times. Dr. Héberger has been a guest editor in the top international journals dedicated to chemometrics (e.g. Chem. Intell. Lab. Syst., J. Chemom.). He has chaired the International Symposium “Conferentia Chemometrica” and “International Symposium on Computer Applications and Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry”

Dr. Marchela E. Pandelova is a research scientist in “Ecotoxicology and Environmental Trace Analysis” group at Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Ecological Chemistry, Neuherberg, Germany, which uses international standard test procedures, HRGC/HRMS, cell lines etc. to characterize and assess chemicals in human and environmental samples and samples from industrial processes. Among other international projects, she participated in FP6 CASCADE Network of Excellence, focusing in baby food.

Prof. Mira Petrovic is the ICREA Research Professor at the Catalan Institue for Water Studies (ICRA). She has participated in 11 EU projects since 1999; as project manager in 7 of them (FP5 projects EXPRESS-IMMUNOTECH and P-THREE, and FP6 projects: thematic network SEDNET, INCO projects EMCO and INNOVA-MED, and Integrated project AQUATERRA, where she was the leader of sub-project MONITOR). Currently she is the partner of FP7 ITN CSI-Environment. She has published 114 papers in SCI journals (Hirsch Index 33); she edited 5 books and published 28 book chapters. Her main expertise is in the field of analytical environmental chemistry, specifically analysis of organic micropollutants and study of their fate and behavior in aquatic systems and during wastewater and drinking water treatment.

Prof. Dr. K.-W. Schramm is head of the “Ecotoxicology and Environmental Trace Analysis” group at Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Ecological Chemistry, Neuherberg, Germany, which deals with the development of new analytical techniques especially for sample preparation to early recognize environmental chemical impact at trace levels. He is an expert in the field of environmental trace analysis and biomonitoring as well as molecular ecotoxicology focusing on the development of novel biomonitoring, assessment methods and modeling fate and toxicity. He has published impressive number of papers in International journals and participated in numerous international projects, including FP6 Network of Excellence CASCADE. Prof. Schramm is also secretary of the International Society of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (SECOTOX).

Prof. Dr. Trajce Stafilov is a full professor at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of Macedonia. He is internationally highly recognized scientist deeply involved in developing of analytical methods (especially in atomic absorption spectrometry) for trace metals analysis in waters, ore, minerals, food, biological and plant material, air, etc.; environmental pollution and monitoring (air, water, soil, solid waste); chromatographic methods for drug and medical plants investigation; industrial chemistry; infrared study of organic compounds and minerals. He is an author of 17 books and monographs, 280 scientific papers, and 410 presentations on scientific meetings. He has participated in numerous European and National research projects. Prof. Stafilov is a full member of the Balkan Academy for Environmental Sciences, American Chemical Society, Balkan Environmental Association, Coordination Group Under the Global Monitoring Plan for POPs, United Nations Environment Programme etc.

Prof. Dr. Csaba Vágvölgyi is a scientist with internationally acknowledged excellence and a strong research and teaching background. He is the Head of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Head of the Microbiology Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Vágvölgyi is a member of Hungarian Microbiological Society, Hungarian Mycological Society, British Mycological Society, etc. He is a lecturer in the field of general microbiology, mycology, applied microbiology, medical microbiology since 1983. His publication recorded is significant with numerous papers in international journals, a number of book chapters and text books, and with more than 500 independent citations. He is a coordinator and participant in numerous international, regional and national projects, including the IPA BIOXEN project.